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Vote. See: News sources. Facebook: GCM-420 [4][5][6]. See: social media tags. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia ballot issues: marijuana and minimum wage. 2019-20 elections. See: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist. This news feed will have long lapses. 24 May 2019: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (Republican) vetoes medical marijuana expansion bill, saying 'Iowa must proceed cautiously' on changes. Republican dictatorship via vetoes and filibusters.
9 May 2019: Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same.  Cardiff, UK. Cannabis March. May 4, 2019. Media. 4 May: Illinois. Democrat governor (with Democrat legislature) announces plan to legalize marijuana.
3 May: 'Luxembourg Can Set an Example in Europe' When It Legalizes Cannabis in 2020. [7][8].
1 May 2019: Las Vegas council approves marijuana ‘social’ lounges. 30 Apr: Large-Scale Cannabis Business Park in Detroit Will Train Past Marijuana Offenders. 30 Apr: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Republican) says Senate won't pass bill to lower penalties for marijuana. 29 Apr: People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says. [19]. 29 Apr: Paul Free released after 25 years in prison for nonviolent marijuana offenses. [20][21]. Yearly GCM-420 city lists and maps. 27 Apr 2019: Why Senate Republicans block and filibuster the rescheduling of cannabis (even for medical purposes): Marijuana can block a green card holder’s U.S. citizenship — even in states where it’s legal. 24 Apr 2019: Will legal pot mark the end of the neighborhood weed man? Exorbitant dispensary prices.
History of 420 in cannabis culture and activism. 10 Apr: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [22][23]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:  Canadian healthcare and Portuguese decrim. See Facebook chart. Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.  Think Global, act local. Video: A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. [24][25][26]. Her videos have tens of millions of views. Wikipedia: School strike for climate.  Glasgow, Scotland, UK. April 20.  Mexico City. May 4. Global Cannabis March. 2 in 3 Americans (66%) Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. [27]. By Gallup Poll. See: CBS poll at 65%. Senate Republicans, and their anti-democratic modern-day filibusters block most cannabis progress. State-Legal Marijuana Use Makes Immigrants Morally Unfit for Citizenship, Trump Administration Warns. Return to top. Return to top.  20 Feb 2019: U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously That States Cannot Impose Excessive Fines. This limits ‘policing for profit’, asset forfeiture.
19 Feb: The Nursing Home With A Medical Cannabis Program The Feds Can Live With.
19 Feb: Oregon's small towns revel in weed tax windfall.
17 Feb: He pushed for marijuana legalization for nearly 20 years. Now the Weedman feels sidelined. [31][32]. And: Bodega owners, too. 14 Feb: Democrat Senator Tim Kaine introduces bill to allow veterans access to medical marijuana through VA. Will Republican Senate block it?  Source. 22 Jan 2019:
Say Goodbye to authoritarian kings and US Presidents. No European democracy has an executive veto power requiring a 2/3 vote to override. Wikipedia: Nuclear Option: Bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate: Stop the: Republican Senate filibuster against federal marijuana legalization. Still true. See Wikipedia: Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. 2 in 3 Americans Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana. 11 Feb 2019: Senator Kamala Harris acknowledges smoking weed in the past, supports legalization, and says it gives people joy. [33].  24 Jan: Philippines and Bangladesh. Drug-war extrajudicial killings of many opposition leaders. 23 Jan: Pot advocate John Sinclair sues state of Michigan over Schedule 1 status. 23 Jan: Here's the Medical Cannabis Super Bowl Ad CBS Refused to Run. [37]. 22 Jan: Pot website offers free medical marijuana to government workers amid shutdown. 22 Jan: Michigan business offers free marijuana with book-bundle purchase. 20 Jan: New Zealand company gets licensed for high THC cannabis. 16 Jan: Virginia House Republicans snuff out marijuana bills. Even decriminalization with civil fines. Return to top.  As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [39][40]. 
 See chart. [1]. And source article. Return to top. 
 See source. And: The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. [41]. See Wikipedia: Wealth inequality in the United States. See: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult. Partial table below: Note that USA is number 21 in the 2018 list. Canada is number 8. Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% of adults have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, bonds, property, etc.) minus all debts.
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| Median wealth | per adult. US dollars 1
| Iceland
| 203,847
| 2
| Australia
| 191,453
| 3
| Switzerland
| 183,339
| 4
| Luxembourg
| 164,284
| 5
| Belgium
| 163,429
| 6
| Netherlands
| 114,935
| 7
| France
| 106,827
| 8
| Canada
| 106,342
| 9
| Japan
| 103,861
| 10
| New Zealand
| 98,613
| 11
| United Kingdom
| 97,169
| 12
| Singapore
| 91,656
| 13
| Spain
| 87,188
| 14
| Norway
| 80,054
| 15
| Italy
| 79,239
| 16
| Taiwan
| 78,177
| 17
| Malta
| 76,116
| 18
| Ireland
| 72,473
| 19
| Austria
| 70,074
| 20
| South Korea
| 65,463
| 21
| United States
| 61,667
| 22
| Denmark
| 60,999
| The average median wealth per adult for Canada is much higher than for the USA, a former great nation. Trump is right. America is no longer great. It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts mainly to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Combined with predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. And predatory medical bills and high deductibles from predatory for-profit health insurance companies. Return to top.  
It Would Take Oregonians 7 Years to Smoke All the Weed They Harvested This Year. [47][48][49][50].
18 Dec 2018: California Regulators: Cities Can't Ban Recreational Marijuana Deliveries. 17 Dec 2018: U.S. Student Loan Debt Sets Record, Doubling Since Recession. $1.465 trillion. 14 Dec 2018: Federal judge forces Trump administration to cancel $150 million in student loan debt.
Luxembourg’s New Deal: Free Transit (summer 2019) and Legal Weed (by 2023). [53]. 7 Dec 2018.
27 Nov 2018: The president's job approval is at 38 percent while his disapproval numbers are at a record 60 percent. And: America's 'war on terror' has cost the US nearly $6 trillion and killed roughly half a million people.  See Facebook comments. Trump storms ahead with Medicaid work rules, even though they’re disastrous for enrollees. By Los Angeles Times.  Fentanyl. 2 mg. A lethal dose in most people. 50 times smaller than a lethal dose of heroin. Source. 19 Nov 2018: Greece eyes pot of gold as medicinal cannabis licensed. 18 Nov 2018: Couples offer marijuana at weddings. 18 Nov 2018: Here's what's behind Mexico's radical move toward legalizing marijuana during its war on drugs 18 Nov 2018: How Democrat and medical cannabis activist Nikki Fried became Florida’s agriculture commissioner. [55][56]. 16 Nov 2018: 16 Nov 2018: It's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running. 16 Nov 2018: Oregon marijuana prices plunge – and sales soar. 12 Nov 2018: Michelle Obama says smoking pot was 'part of her becoming story'.  Mysterious interstellar object floating in space might be alien, say Harvard researchers. USA Today. Interstellar Cannabis March! The mysterious flying joint! 6 Nov 2018. Michigan Legalizes Recreational Marijuana. 10th state to do so. 6-7 Nov 2018: Election results 2018: States legalize marijuana, felon voting rights. USA Today. And: Missouri votes to legalize medical marijuana. And: Utah Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization. And: Florida restores voting rights to 1.5 million former felons. Return to top. Marijuana In The Governor's Mansion: Record Number Of Democrat Candidates Say Legalize It.  1 Nov 2018: Mexico's Supreme Court effectively legalized weed in an effort to eliminate gang-related violent crime. [62][63]. Bernie Sanders: 3 people own more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans. [64]. And: Happy alternatives to Republican poverty. Thailand is Poised to Become the First Asian Country to Legalize Medical Marijuana. [65][66]. 30 Oct 2018: The World's Largest Weed Dispensary Is About to Open Near the Las Vegas Strip. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [68]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.   See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. And: Cannabis polls. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [69][70][71]. Timeline. Trump's staggeringly low approval ratings compared to other presidents. Scroll down. Run mouse cursor over Presidential charts. Updated continuously. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia ballot issues: marijuana and minimum wage.
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- See: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. See categories: Maps, and Charts and graphs. See: Current events and news. See: List of countries and U.S. states by incarceration rate.
| The majority of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA are in due to drug-related offenses, crimes to get money for drugs, or drug-related parole or probation violations. Wikipedia: Drug-related crime. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. Obama's Democrat landslide in 2008 turned the incarceration rate around. But the USA still has the highest incarceration rate of any nation (b c). The cost of the U.S. drug war is at least 1.5 trillion dollars. Cannabis is safer! Share link. |
| See: Drug war cost charts, infographics, and links. |
See: Maps of USA showing violence and oppression.
Incarceration rates worldwide
 Prisoners per 100,000 population. Gray in the map means no data. See the Commons image page for sources and more info. See List of countries by incarceration rate. See template. Article: Compare incarceration rates. |
| The map may be old. The latest data is here: Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate. From World Prison Brief. Incarceration rates are based on inmates in both prisons and jails. |
USA timeline. Prison, jail, probation, parole
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USA: Peak of 7.3 million people in 2007 under adult correctional supervision: On probation or parole, or incarcerated in jail or prison. About 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults. More info here. See template.
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Correctional Populations in the United States. By Bureau of Justice Statistics. See info.
Long timelines of U.S. incarceration
See: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.
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November Coalition graph. Some Congressmen and police who prosecuted the War on Drugs now believe it caused a large increase in the United States incarceration rate. See Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and larger chart with sources. See template. Incarceration peaked in 2008.
- "I Was Wrong About the War on Drugs – It's a Failure". By Bob Barr (former Republican, former federal prosecutor, and former Congressman). June 11, 2008. AlterNet.
- "The solution to the failed drug war". By Jack A. Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Sept. 13, 2008. Boston Globe.
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Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008.
 See sourcing here. See charts and maps. Go here for latest incarceration rates for many nations. See Wikipedia list. See this category. Share link. See: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008. |
People in prisons and jails for drug offences
- See main article: People in prisons and jails in the USA for drug-related crime.
- See also: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate.
489,000 in 2013 (see chart below). For drug offenses alone.
Need to add in drug-related burglary, robbery, murder, etc. to get drug money, defend turf, etc..
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Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008.
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USA: Peak of 7.3 million people in 2007 under adult correctional supervision: On probation or parole, or incarcerated in jail or prison. About 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults. More info here. See template.
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In 2009 26.4% of those in federal and state prisons, or on probation or parole, were in due to drug offenses. Jail numbers are not included below.
Cost of U.S. drug war
| Cost of U.S. drug war. Even $1.5 trillion dollars is conservative since many crimes are committed in order to get money for drugs. State prisons averaged $31,268 per inmate in 2010. See: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. See: Economics - Drug War Facts. See: 32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs - Business Insider. See: The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition. |
A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn't Working. By Serena Dai. The Atlantic Wire. 12 Oct 2012. "The numbers on this chart alone don't add up to $1.5 trillion, which represents a more inclusive count of drug control spending, with prison costs and state level costs determined by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, but instead to $800 billion." See: Cost of U.S. drug war. Share link.
USA. Adult and juvenile incarceration
The drug war causes the high U.S. incarceration rate.
| USA and territories. 2,424,279 inmates in 2008. ... |
| In 2008 with less than 5% of world population the USA had 2.4 million of 9.8 million world prisoners (b). See latest numbers and World Prison Population List. The majority of inmates in the USA are in due to the drug war. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. |
 From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. See template. See source info. |
USA. Adult and juvenile inmate stats. Share link.
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Source: Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013. See Appendix Table 2 in PDF. From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Incarceration rate is per 100,000. See template. See juvenile detention numbers.
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Cost of criminal justice system in the USA
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U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentences
First mandatory minimums chart below is from an older FAMM report, "Correcting Course: Lessons from the 1970s Repeal of Mandatory Minimum Sentences". FAMM is Families Against Mandatory Minimums. [72]. See Wikipedia: Mandatory minimums. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the amounts of crack cocaine required to trigger 5 and 10 year sentences. [73]. See revised charts since then. Share link to this page.
For charts of all federal mandatory minimums (not just for drug offenses), go here.
Later chart with revisions, such as the amount of crack cocaine required for various sentences:
Marijuana Majority
It has been up to 58% for legalization in some polls. See MarijuanaMajority.com for latest graphic.
USA. Incarceration rates by race and ethnicity
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Incarceration rates for adult males in U.S. jails and prisons by race and ethnicity. At midyear 2009, an estimated 4.7% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.8% of Hispanic men of any race, and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men. Sources. More info: Race, ethnicity, and the drug war. See template.
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USA. Cannabis arrests over time
Sources for marijuana arrest numbers by year:
- Commons:File:US Cannabis Arrests.svg - see sources and data table below the timeline chart.
- Percent distribution of arrests for drug abuse violations. By type of drug, United States, 1982-2009. Sourcebook of criminal justice statistics Online.
- See also: Wikimedia Commons:Category:Cannabis arrest statistics.
- See main article: Number of marijuana prisoners in the USA.
USA. Drug arrests over time, by drug type
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USA. Marijuana versus violent crime arrests
Marijuana Possession Arrests Exceed Violent Crime Arrests (INFOGRAPHIC). 17 Jan 2013. Huffington Post.
Healthcare costs by country
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Canadian Single-Payer Healthcare and Portuguese Decriminalization. Saves trillions of dollars. |
Lower healthcare cost per person in Canada for all healthcare costs (public and private):
Above chart is from: US Health Care Spending More than Twice the Average for Developed Countries | Mercatus. Canada's single-payer universal healthcare costs less per person than U.S. healthcare. [74][75]. For more country info and charts: [76][77].
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