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Filibuster: Extension of Nixon's racist Southern strategy.

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Mexico City. May 4, 2019. See: Source. [1].
Cape Town, South Africa. May 5, 2018. See source, with more photos.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 26, 2018. See source. Part of "Green May" (many cities) [2][3][4] in Brazil. See another 2018 photo. See video showing massive crowd (from 1 minute on, especially the time lapse video).
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 6, 2017. See source.
Cape Town, South Africa. May 7, 2016. See source.
Athens, Greece. May 9, 2015. See source, and more photos.
Medellin, Colombia. May 3, 2014. See source. See more photos: 2013 May 4. Also: 2011 May 7. (b, c.)
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 3, 2014. See source. [5]. See also: 2012 May 5 photo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 4, 2013. See source. [6]. See street-level crowd shot.
Medellin, Colombia. May 5, 2012. See more photos: a, b, c.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 19, 2012. See another photo.
Toronto, Canada. May 2, 2009.
Toronto, Canada. May 6, 2006.
May 8, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Million Joint March (La Marcha del Millón de Porros en Madrid, Mayo 2004). See source. [7]. For more info and photos: [8][9][10].
May 4, 2002 in Paris, France in front of the Hotel de Ville. See a source. [11].

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Canada and Portugal. Vs USA.

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. CDC: 96,800 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending February 28, 2021. Scroll down to the timeline graph. Then hover over the end to get the total deaths number.

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. (2. 3.) 24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.

Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2. There were over 99,100 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending March 31, 2021. 271 per day. Only around 30 to 50 per year in Portugal. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare vs US healthcare. And: Canada has far fewer handguns per household. 2. See: Chart.
Country	Median wealth per adult. 2020. US dollars	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019	Murder rate per 100,000. 2020
Canada	$125,688	$5,418	2.0
USA	$79,274	$11,072	6.5

Country	Life expectancy. 2019	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017
Canada	82.4 years	4.9	10
USA	78.9 years	6.5	19

Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14.

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It's 20 years now since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001.

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News: US Republicans lead war on cannabis. And near-genocidal US drug war. 96,800 drug overdose deaths in the year ending February 28, 2021. At the CDC source scroll down to the timeline graph and hover over the end to get the total deaths number.

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Many charts: Wikipedia: US drug overdose death rates and totals over time.

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. To Top. Or Table top. Or News. Or Home.

If not for Obamacare, COVID-19 patients with preexisting conditions could’ve been ‘uninsurable’. And: Trump Republicans asked Court to rule Obamacare unconstitutional even as Covid-19 raged. And: Short-term health plans (not Obamacare) leave consumers on the hook for massive medical costs, investigation finds. And: US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [14][15][16].
Source. And: #MedicareForAll. Source and comments.

Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [17]. Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!

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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. Vote out US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war! [18]. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. [19]. Billionaires gained $5.5 trillion during pandemic. [20]. Hunger. [21]. $70 billion could end pandemic worldwide. [22]. Tax the rich! End the drug war!

**He is a con man for the rich. Repeal Trump's tax cuts for the rich.**

13 Oct 2021: Voters Across The U.S. Will Decide On Marijuana And Psychedelics Ballot Measures Next Month.. Sales taxes on cannabis are regressive taxes that hurt the poor the most, and force people to the illegal market. Vote them all down. Progressive income taxes are much fairer taxes. Rich Republican leaders hate them. Repeal the Trump tax cuts for the rich. Support minimum wage increases.
12 Oct 2021: Man fails in appeal against death sentence for transporting 1kg of cannabis into Singapore. [23]. Death for 2 pounds. These fascist countries with the death penalty. Oh wait, the US has the death penalty AND the world's highest incarceration rate. AND around 100,000 overdose deaths a year from its drug war. Versus Portugal with around 50 deaths a year (via decrim since 2001).
11 Oct 2021: Activists seek legal marijuana in former hippie haven Nepal. "Health minister Birod Khatiwada, a powerful member of the governing coalition, has been lobbying for the proposed bill".
8 Oct 2021: Young Brit Receives 25 Year Sentence In Dubai For CBD Oil. Four small bottles of vape oil and a vape pen.
6 Oct 2021: Youtube. This Philly neighborhood is purportedly the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. [24]. And: Melissa Etheridge on using marijuana instead of prescription drugs. See: study on cannabis vs opioids.

7 Oct 2021: Reallocation effects of the minimum wage. "In January 2015, Germany introduced a uniform minimum wage of €8.50 [$10 an hour today]. ... boosted wages of low-wage workers, did not lower employment, and induced a reallocation toward more productive establishments." - Why do US Republicans leaders hate us? Why won't they raise the US minimum wage?

Minimum wage by US state and territory. Dark blue areas have a higher minimum wage than the federal rate ($7.25 per hour). For the other colors the federal rate applies. Except for "special minimum wage" that applies to 2 island territories. See source for more info.

Mostly in U.S. Republican states.
Percent of adults with overdue debt in collections. By county. See source.

3 Oct 2021: Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed. Repeal Trump's Taliban Republican tax cuts for the rich. And vote out Republicans to end the cannabis war. 2 Oct 2021: 1 in 5 older Americans say they used up their savings or lost their main source of income because of the pandemic.

2 Oct 2021: "I Am Not A Baby-Making Machine": Thousands March For Abortion Rights In Protest Of Texas's New Law. [25][26]. The many photos and hundreds of rallies across the nation are great. Makes me miss having hundreds of global cannabis marches. Taliban Republicans may be crushed in the 2022 midterm elections due to this. That would be great for cannabis reform, too.
1 Oct 2021: Marijuana Isn’t Exactly On Virginia’s Ballot Next Month, But Legalization’s Fate Is, Advocates Say. "Depending on who voters choose as governor, and which party ends up controlling the legislature during the election, the new government [if Republican] could drastically roll back planned reforms or undo them completely,"
30 Sep 2021: Democratic Gov. Newsom approves sweeping reforms to law enforcement in California. "allowing their badges to be permanently taken away for excessive force, dishonesty and racial bias. ... mandating that officers intercede when they see a colleague using excessive force and immediately report the incident. ... fails to intercede could be disciplined up to and including the same penalty as the officer who committed the excessive force."
30 Sep 2021: Most Police Killings in the U.S. Aren't Officially Counted, Study Finds.
28 Sep 2021: D.C. Sets First-Ever Hearing On Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana Sales.
27 Sep 2021: Los Angeles DA (Democrat) moves to dismiss nearly 60,000 marijuana convictions. Last year, Jackie Lacey (Democrat), then the district attorney, dismissed 66,000 convictions.
23 Sep 2021: Report: Southern Oregon Hemp Testing Reveals Large Amounts Of Illicit Marijuana.
22 Sep 2021: Is Hemp Insulation a ‘Game-Changing’ Housing Technology?
22 Sep: Helsinki. The Green League presented Finland's first plans for legalization.
21 Sep: Amazon says workers and applicants fired or barred during marijuana screening are now eligible for employment. Lobbying to federally deschedule cannabis.

19 Sep 2021: Italy set for referendum on liberalising cannabis use, say advocates. 18 Sep: CNN. Italy will likely hold a referendum on decriminalizing cannabis next year. 500,000 signatures gathered. [27][28]. 13 Sep: Italy. Cannabis referendum, 220,000 signatures in 48 hours. “This is a political fact. We are making history”. [29].

13 Sep: Inside Italy’s Push To Decriminalize Recreational Cannabis. [30]. 8 Sep: Selfie of a couple Italian legislators making progress on cannabis. [31]. Wikipedia: Cannabis in Italy.
12 Sep: Cannabis Social Clubs In Malta Will Be ‘Friendly And Welcoming,’ Barcelona Businessman Says.
11 Sep 2021: USA. Timeline of daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths. 3000 people died from 9/11 in the US. 1600 people are dying daily from COVID-19 in the US (mostly unvaccinated Republicans) right now. [32]. 271 daily overdose deaths in the US. Over 99,100 in the year ending March 31, 2021.
7 Sep 2021: USA. Just Say It: The US Health Care System Has Collapsed. Nurse shortage at crisis level. [33]. Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. [34][35][36][37][38]. Single-payer healthcare costs less and gets better results:

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7 Sep: Poll: Republican Voters Support Florida's Governor DeSantis, But Overall Popularity Declines. Another science-hating, prohibitionist Taliban Republican sinks below 50% approval in the polls.

7 Sep 2021: Mexico Supreme Court rules criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional. It also recently declared again that marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional, and possession and cultivation legal. In contrast to the Trump Supreme Court, Texas Taliban, and Republican cannabis prohibitionists.

3 Sep 2021: Malaysia. Sentenced to death on Sep 3, 2021 for 299 grams of cannabis.
3 Sep 2021: Italy. Filippo Blengino arrested for posting a video about growing cannabis.
2 Sep 2021: Oregon. Task Force Raids Black-Market Marijuana Grows Back-to-Back; Finds $600k, 20k plants, 15k lbs. Processed Illegal Marijuana. Article, photos.
1 Sep 2021: Grand jury returns 32-count indictment against officers, paramedics involved in Elijah McClain's death.

Vaccines and mask mandates work. Republicans don't believe in science, harm reduction, etc..
29 Aug 2021: Florida radio host 'Mr. Anti-Vax' dies of COVID-19. 29 Aug 2021: CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID. 28 Aug 2021: Do face masks work? Here are 49 scientific studies that explain why they do.

25 Aug 2021: Snoop Dogg Advocates For Marijuana Use In Sports On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Special Edition Hosted By Stephen A. Smith.
23 Aug 2021: Court ruling increases amount of medical cannabis New Mexicans may purchase.
23 Aug 2021: California. ‘Times are really, really tough’: Plummeting cannabis prices strain small farmers.

Just like the drug war, another war sustained by lies, and massive wasteful spending.
23 Aug 2021: I served in Afghanistan as a US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences. "The right call was getting out in 2002. 2003. ... We deserve better. Instead of politicians spending $6.4 trillion to 'nation build' in the Middle East, we should start nation building right here at home. ... When our country’s elites were preaching about how they had solved the financial crisis and the housing market was booming, I watched the house I joined the Marine Corps out of sit on the market for two years. My dad finally got $43,000 for it. He owed $78,000."

17 Aug 2021: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Tried Marijuana. "The percentage of U.S. adults who say they have tried marijuana has ticked up to 49%, the highest Gallup has measured to date. More than 50 years ago, just 4% said they had tried the drug".

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Latest US drug overdose numbers: 95,000 died in 12 month period ending Jan 31, 2021. [39]. Contrast with Portugal at around 30 to 50 deaths per year. [40][41]. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001. [42].

16 Aug 2021: The US spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan – and for what? [43]. Plus: Another $2 trillion for future care of veterans of post-9/11 wars. From another article: "More than 80 percent of global opium and heroin come from Afghanistan." ... "anger against the government in Kabul and its foreign backers – and sympathy for the Taliban – among farmers and labourers who depend on opium production to feed their families." From Costs of War Project: 241,000 Afghan War deaths. Not counting those "by disease, loss of access to food, water, infrastructure, and/or other indirect consequences of the war".

12 Aug 2021: These States Could Have Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On The Ballot In 2022.

8 Aug 2021: Study suggests cannabis can induce a psychedelic-like “oceanic” experience. Further study needed to see if this helps relieve depression. 30 July: This article may be premature in saying it helps depression. See: Actual study.
8 Aug 2021: My husband's suicide after Jan. 6 riots was a line-of-duty death. He deserves recognition. "Struck in the head with a metal pole after having been brutally attacked [by Republican fascists]."
8 Aug 2021: Colorado Cannabis Activist 'Wayward Bill' Passes at 70.
6 Aug 2021: Sharing The Knowledge: How President Joe Biden Can Use The Defense Production Act To End The Pandemic Worldwide.
6 Aug 2021: Body Cam Footage Shows Deputy Overdose After Being Exposed to Fentanyl.
1 Aug 2021: The Olympics shouldn’t test for cannabis — much less ban athletes who test positive. Cannabis is safer than the alcohol craziness at the Olympics.

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Debt in America: An Interactive Map. 29% of all adults. 24% of whites. 39% of people of color. See the map there, and above. See the astonishing percentages of adults with debt in collection. By county. Especially in the South. The South has been greatly impoverished by low Republican minimum wages, lack of expanded Medicaid, unfair bankruptcy laws, massive evictions (past and upcoming).
1 Aug 2021: Spain. The cannabis party makes the leap into national politics.
30 July 2021: Louisiana makes history with new law decriminalizing marijuana Aug 1.

27 July 2021: Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river. The KKK owns law enforcement today in the Republican state of Florida. "Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons."

27 July 2021: Ohio. Legalized recreational marijuana could return to 2022 ballot.
19 July 2021: U.S. Senate seeking public comment on cannabis legalization.
Wikipedia: Universal health care. And: List of countries with universal health care.

Disabled people in the US do not yet have marriage equality, due to the lack of universal healthcare, and due to the disabled marriage penalty.
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19 July 2021: Marijuana no longer seized at airport checkpoints in New York state.
16 July 2021: Is the Czech Republic on the cusp of a cannabis boom?

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7 July 2021: Nevada Declares Marijuana Not Performance Enhancing—Legalizes Cannabis Use For MMA Athletes. "The Nevada state Athletic Commission voted Wednesday to lift its longtime ban on athletes using marijuana, opening the door for boxers and mixed-martial artists competing on the sport’s biggest stage to freely and openly use cannabis."
6 July 2021: Brazil Gains Ground on Medical Marijuana, in Defiance of Bolsonaro.

2 July: Seth Rogen, Other Celebrities Denounce Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympics Suspension: ‘If Weed Made You Fast, I’d Be FloJo’. Thinking that’s rooted in hatred. [44][45][46].
28 June 2021: Mexico. Supreme court strikes down laws that ban use of recreational marijuana.
28 June 2021: Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary.
26 June 2021: Germany: Cannabis legalization becomes election campaign issue. "Four of the six parties ... are committed to backing an end to the prohibition policy."
22 June: Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (Democrat) signs bill legalizing recreational marijuana.
17 June 2021: Rick Steves: War on Drugs Turns 50 Today — Join Me in Fighting Back.
17 June 2021: Connecticut Governor Plans to Sign Legal Cannabis Bill Heading to His Desk. "passed on a 16 to 11 vote, ... all the Republicans in attendance in opposition."
10 June 2021: Some murderous Republicans rebel against needle exchanges, a powerful anti-opioid tool. Drug users (Republican kids too) put up against a wall and shot. Same difference, GOP let them get HIV and hepatitis. And for-profit GOP healthcare likes the business.
5 June 2021: Turkey experiments with cannabis crops to boost hemp production.
2 June 2021: Amazon is stopping employee testing for weed. Amazon will “actively support” the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.
30 May 2021: Getting hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 after 2nd vaccination is incredibly rare.

22 and 29 May 2021: Grenoble and Paris, France. CannaParade and Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. World Cannabis March. [47][48][49][50][51].
25 May 2012: As Lumber Prices Surge, Hemp Blocks Get a Closer Look.
24 May 2021: 8 States Side With Cancer Patients In Psilocybin Lawsuit Against DEA.
19 May 2021: Since legalization 2 years ago, Arkansans have spent $300 million on medical marijuana. "38 dispensary licenses and the full limit of eight growers licenses."

14 May 2021: Billionaires worldwide gained $5 trillion in one year. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage.
13 May 2021: Minnesota House passes legal cannabis bill; no future in Republican Senate.
11 May 2021: USA. 15% of Black female high school students attempted suicide in a year. 9% of white female students. 12% of Hispanic female students. Time magazine. Republicans block universal healthcare.

2021 Global Cannabis March & 420. See celebstoner.com list. And potguide.com US list. And Canada list. May 1 and April 20 events. Or thereabouts. Many are online. See Global Marijuana March and 420 over the years. See GMM and 420 in 2021.

1 May 2021: Shoutwiki: New York City. See 2021 section. Cannabis Parade and Rally. 420 links too.
1 May 2021: New York City. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will headline this year's NYC Cannabis Parade & Rally on May 1. As well as other dignitaries.

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29 Apr 2021: He Fought for Decades to Make Marijuana Legal. Now What?. By Colin Moynihan. About Dana Beal. From New York Times.

**April 20. AOC and Earl Blumenauer wore pot leaf masks at the Capitol.**

Packed, maskless rallies and marches are Covid super-spreader events. Though less young people are dying, they still spread Covid to others. More spread equals more deaths. See table and map of world vaccination rates by country (click tabs below chart). Fully vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus, even though they are much less likely to be hospitalized, or die. See article.

23 Apr 2021: Five States Where Republicans Are Trying to Block Marijuana Legalization.
20 Apr 2021: New York City. Got vaxxed — get grass; Free joints in Union Square for proof of jabs. Many photos. [52][53][54][55][56][57].
20 Apr: Food Network's 'Chopped 420' stars Phoenix cannabis chef Derek Upton.
19 Apr 2021: House Passes Marijuana Banking Bill With Bipartisan Support . "The legislation passed the House with bipartisan support in 2019, but it was ignored by the Republican-controlled Senate."
16 Apr 2021: Biden’s Already On Board With Federal Marijuana Legalization Even If He Doesn’t Use That Word, according to Senators Booker and Schumer. "At the federal level, you call it 'decriminalization' because that lets the states legalize".

15 Apr 2021: Nationwide Poll: More Americans Than Ever Before (69%) Say That Marijuana Should Be Legal.
14 Apr: Jeff Mizanskey on Life After a Life Sentence for Marijuana. "I was actually the first one here to buy legal cannabis in Pettis County [Missouri]. It was strange — I mean, after spending almost 23 years in prison for cannabis, and now all of a sudden I can go into the store right here? It wasn't a mile from where I was originally arrested in 1993. I was almost afraid to go in the dispensary,"
14 Apr 2021: Montana Passes Landmark Bill Advancing Hemp as Animal Feed.

12 Apr 2021: New Mexico becomes latest state to legalize marijuana, a rebuttal to America's 'failed war on drugs'. "While marijuana will become legal on June 29, New Mexico residents will, for a time, need to grow their own (under the new law, they are allowed up to six plants each). That's because the state will first need to develop both a regulatory infrastructure and sufficient commercial supply before allowing retail sales, which could begin as late as April 2022. ... the state's [dumbass] Republicans are displeased."

9 Apr 2021: Nikki Fried: Florida Republicans declare war on medical marijuana | Opinion. "House Bill 1455, put forward by [Republican] Representative Roach (ironic, right?), declares war on Florida’s medical marijuana program and patients."
8 Apr 2021: Virginia legalizes marijuana. "Adults 21 and older will be able to use and grow marijuana, starting in July. The state will also launch a legal, regulated market".
7 Apr 2021: Virginia, 16th State To Legalize Recreational Pot, Latest To Emphasize 'Social Equity'. "Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, also a Democrat, broke a 20-20 vote tie in Virginia's Senate to pass the bill. No Republicans supported the measure."
5 Apr 2021: Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Key Senate Committee, With Floor Vote Expected This Month. "Under the proposal, adults 18 and older would be allowed to purchase and possess up to 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use."

3 Apr 2021: Schumer: Senate will act on marijuana legalization with or without Biden. From article: More than 40 percent of Americans now live in states that have embraced full legalization. ... "The legalization of states worked out remarkably well," he [Schumer] said. "They were a great success. The parade of [Republican] horribles never came about, and people got more [Democratic] freedom."

31 Mar 2021: New York Becomes 15th State To Legalize Marijuana. [58]. "Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Wednesday [March 31, 2021] ... The legislation automatically clears the records of those with past marijuana-related convictions ... State lawmakers passed the legislation mainly along party lines late Tuesday, [clueless Republicans opposed it]." 31 Mar 2021: New York’s Summer of Hedonism Gets an Early Start As Recreational Weed Becomes Immediately Legal. "New Yorkers are permitted to smoke cannabis [now] in public wherever smoking tobacco is allowed."

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New York City. Looks like we legalized marijuana just in time:

28 Mar 2021: Marijuana takes center stage in New Mexico special session. Republicans oppose social and economic justice issues.
26 Mar: Georgia's Republican governor signed voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation. [59][60]. See also: Wikipedia: Gerrymandering.

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26 Mar 2021: France launches 2-year experiment with medical marijuana.
26 Mar 2021: What the Deal to Legalize Marijuana Means for New Yorkers. [61][62][63].
25 Mar: New York: Lawmakers reach deal to legalize recreational marijuana, source says.
25 Mar: ‘They are, in effect, supporting racism’: Black leaders zero in on Dems’ filibuster holdouts. [64].

24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.
18 Mar 2021: Morocco's Bill to Legalise Cannabis for Medicine and Industry Divides Growers.
15 Mar 2021: Recreational marijuana sales since Jan 22, 2021 bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for Arizona.

The age of mass killings. Putin and Assad: Syrian War. 500,000 dead. Bush: Iraq War. Hundreds of thousands dead. War based on his administration's WMD lies. Trump's "great relationship" Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines Drug War. Tens of thousands of killings. Felipe Calderon and Bush: Mexican Drug War. 300,000 homicides since it began in 2006. US Drug War. 86,000 drug overdose deaths in the last year. 1,015,060 from 1968 to 2019.

14 Mar: Stacey Abrams calls Republican efforts to restrict voting in Georgia ‘Jim Crow in a suit’.
13 Mar 2021: Mexico: Congress passes marijuana legalization bill. "Mexican President Obrador supports marijuana legalization. The bill will now have to pass Mexico's upper house of Congress, the Senate. The bill was previously passed by the Senate in November [2020], but it will have to be voted on again following changes made in the lower chamber. ... The drug war has left an enormous human death toll, with more than 300,000 homicides since it began in 2006."
11 Mar 2021: Pennsylvania To Pay $475K To Family In Bulldozer Death Of Berks County Man Caught Growing Pot On Public Land
3 Mar 2021: U.S. Cannabis Sales Hit Record $17.5 Billion As Americans Consume More Marijuana Than Ever Before.

1 Mar 2021: Guess what the minimum wage would be if it kept pace with inflation or productivity? "Today, the 1968 federal minimum wage, which peaked in purchasing power at $1.60 per hour, is the equivalent of $11.53 if adjusted for inflation, and $24.00 if adjusted for productivity."

27 Feb 2021: Virginia joins 15 other states in legalizing marijuana "The House passed the measure in a 48-43 vote, and the Senate approved it in a 20-19 vote. Not a single Republican [dumbasses!] voted for the bill in either chamber."
27 Feb 2021: Youtube. Documental CANNÁBICAS - Cannabis Documentary. Female cannabis activists worldwide. In Spanish, English, Portuguese, etc..
26 Feb 2021: Washington Supreme Court Strikes Down Criminalization Of Drug Possession.
25 Feb 2021: Morocco to legalise cannabis production for medical and industrial use. [65][66].

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25 Feb 2021: Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Support $15 Minimum Wage.
25 Feb 2021: Bernie Sanders: US sick of subsidizing 'starvation wages' at Walmart and McDonald's.
25 Feb 2021: Poll: Majority of West Virginians support $15 federal minimum wage. "Jayaraman says that small businesses actually fair better in states with higher wages. ... tipped workers like those who hold jobs in restaurant business deserve more. Right now, they are in what’s called the sub minimum wage group, they get about $2.13 an hour." And tips often do not bring that up to the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
25 Feb 2021: Texas power grid was 4 minutes, 37 seconds away from ‘total collapse’ . Clueless Republican leaders: "the state could have been left in the dark for weeks, ... Texas, which is the only state to run its own stand-alone electricity grid."
22 Feb 2021: Gov. Murphy (Democrat) Signs Regulation and Decrim Bills That Officially Legalize Marijuana in New Jersey.
21 Feb 2021: Texas army veteran faces $16,000 bill due to rocketing energy prices as billionaire gas producer and Dallas Cowboys owner stands to profit from it. Trump and Republican deregulation. Reverse Robin Hood.
21 Feb 2021: Massachusetts lawmakers want to decriminalize all drugs, raise soda tax.
21 Feb 2021: Patients Flock To Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program, Driving Surge In Job Growth.

20 Feb: India’s love-hate relationship with cannabis. [67].
19 Feb 2021: Lawmakers Voted To Approve Marijuana Legalization Bills In Four States This Week.
19 Feb 2021: Wisconsin. Republican leaders snuff out Governor Evers’ plan to legalize marijuana.
19 Feb 2021:Vive La France? - Is France Finally Going to Legalize Le Cannabis in 2021?
16 Feb 2021: Michigan’s marijuana industry surpasses Oregon in cannabis jobs, report says. And: The US cannabis industry now supports 321,000 full-time jobs. “Since 2017, the U.S. cannabis industry has averaged 27.5% growth each year,” Leafly reports. “No other industry even comes close.”
15 Feb 2021: Australian firm says it will bring HempBLOCK system to USA.
14 Feb 2021: Maine employers no longer require marijuana tests.
11 Feb: Northern Kentucky lawmaker (Democrat) files legislation that would legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. [68][69][70].
11 Feb 2021: A Psychedelic Lawyer Talks Loopholes, Getting High for Research and the Future of the Industry. [71].

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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [72][73][74].

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 for something other than health care. Health insurance companies, for example. See also:

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization

USA. The state of the nation.

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CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.

Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Henrik Vanger: "Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word 'freedom'?"

Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). And: Remove Presidential veto power.
The filibuster and the presidential veto should be temporary delays before simple majority votes (50% +1).
The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [75].

2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Event links: 2022 talk. & Main talk.

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3 Incarceration rates worldwide
4 USA timeline. Prison, jail, probation, parole
5 Long timelines of U.S. incarceration
6 People in prisons and jails for drug offences
7 Cost of U.S. drug war
8 USA. Adult and juvenile incarceration
9 Cost of criminal justice system in the USA
10 U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentences
11 Marijuana Majority
12 USA. Incarceration rates by race and ethnicity
13 USA. Cannabis arrests over time
14 USA. Drug arrests over time, by drug type
15 USA. Marijuana versus violent crime arrests
16 Healthcare costs by country
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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[]

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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.

Correctional Populations in the United States. By Bureau of Justice Statistics. See info.

Long timelines of U.S. incarceration[]

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See: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008‎.

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.

**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[]

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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..
All to get drug money, defend turf, etc..

The Sentencing Project News - Drug Policy.

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.

Source: Prisons & Drug Offenders. Drug War Facts.

Cost of U.S. drug war[]

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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[]

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See also: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.

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.

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.

Cost of criminal justice system in the USA[]

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See main article: Cost of U.S. drug war.

Appendix Table 1. Total justice expenditures, 1982–2007. USA.
Real (inflation adjusted to 2007), and nominal dollars (unadjusted). $228 billion in 2007. Police, corrections, courts.
Year	Nominal dollars (in millions)	Real dollars (in millions)
1982	$35,842	$84,129
1987	58,871	114,484
1992	93,777	154,912
1997	129,793	189,463
2002	179,580	227,672
2007	227,563	227,563
Justice Expenditures and Employment, FY 1982-2007. NCJ 236218. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

$228 billion total in 2007 according to BJS data. $36 billion in 1982 (not adjusted for inflation). Detailed yearly costs timeline is **here** (scroll down). See inflation-adjusted chart. BJS is U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. The **majority of prisoners are incarcerated due to the drug war.** See **drug war charts and maps**. State prisons averaged **$31,286 per inmate** in 2010. See: Costs of U.S. drug war.

U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentences[]

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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. [76]. See Wikipedia: Mandatory minimums. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the amounts of crack cocaine required to trigger 5 and 10 year sentences. [77]. See revised charts since then. Share link to this page.

For charts of all federal mandatory minimums (not just for drug offenses), go here.