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Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. [7][8]. And: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class.: "The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent." [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].

US. Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay. - Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage.

Medicare for All. Majority support if providers kept. July 2019 poll

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Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare.
Charts. USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. So: 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.)	Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.)

Country	Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017	Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
Canada	$106,342	$4,826	1.7
USA	$61,667	$10,209	5.3

US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.)

Country	Life expectancy 2016 (2)	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
Canada	82.8 years	5.1	7.3
USA	78.5 years	6.6	26.4

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 has now been 19 years since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001. Compare to US:
Wikipedia: US drug overdose death rates and totals over time.

US timeline. Number of overdose deaths from all drugs — **Source.**

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Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. Feb 7, 2020 article. Especially in Republican states with low minimum wages. See: Wages.

Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.

Wage slave waking up

US. Inflation-adjusted wages are declining. Especially in Republican states with low minimum wages.

Universal healthcare, minimum wage, median wealth, homicide rates, handgun ownership rates, overpopulation, and quality of life are rarely compared by country by NPR News and other mainstream US media. Decades of ignorance, isolationism, and xenophobia.

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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!

13 Feb 2020: All eyes on New York state plan to legalize marijuana, help those hit by War on Drugs.

Mexico City 2019 May 4 Mexico crowd 4 — **2020 Global Cannabis March and 420 Map.** Crowd **photo** from **Mexico City,** May 4, **2019.** See **420 Events Guide.**

11 Feb: Croatia Introduces Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana: MP Mirela Holy.
11 Feb: Croatia Launches Recreational Cannabis Legalization Bill | Grizzle.
3 Feb: With pot now legal in Illinois, marijuana tour buses begin rolling in Chicago.
31 Jan: Indonesian Lawmaker Backs Cannabis Exports. [18].
29 Jan: Pro-Legalization Group Ranks Best And Worst Governors On Marijuana. [19][20]. Vote out most Republicans.

7 Feb 2020: Climate change: Antarctica just registered its hottest temperature ever recorded. No need to worry. Trump says everything is OK.

7 Feb: Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. See: Wages.

The problem with America — **Source and comments. - Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage. - 2020 Minimum Wage map.** [1][2].

Stock market's at an all time high, libtard — **Source and comments.**

2020 US minimum wage map — **2020 State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states.** [3][4].

Donald is mine, chosen divine — **Source and comments.**

Total US household debt and its composition over time — Ever-increasing **US household debt** under **Trump**, and **his huge tax breaks for the rich, but not for the middle class** who need it the most. Huge **medical** and **student** debt. **Low minimum wages in many Republican states.** See **map.** [5].

28 Jan: Indiana Republicans aiming to force marijuana prosecutions.
29 Jan: Racist Dayton, Ohio High School Expels Student for Smelling Like Weed Despite 2 Negative Test Results. 24 Jan: Racist Texas high school tells student that if he doesn't cut his dreadlocks, he won't get to walk at graduation. Another example of hair discrimination, some say. [21]
28 Jan: U.S. farm group urges 1% THC limit, longer harvest period. Like other countries.
27 Jan: Mexico’s President Says A New Marijuana Panel Will Make Legalization Recommendation.
23 Jan: Column: Trump opens door to Social Security cuts. [22][23].
22 Jan: Legal pot ‘peddlers’ should be allowed to sell at farmer’s markets, on street corners, black activists say.
17 Jan: Ohio hemp growing rules approved; farmers can start later this month.
15 Jan: Group of Mississippi physicians come out in support of medical marijuana initiative.
8 Jan: Alcohol Is Killing More Americans Than Ever. Cannabis is Safer. And Republicans keep blocking all cannabis rescheduling bills in the Senate.
31 Dec 2019: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (Democrat) issues 11,000 pardons for marijuana.
27 Dec: Growing a Little Marijuana at Home Is Not a Crime, Italy’s Top Court Says. Decriminalized. [24][25].
20 Dec: Thailand. Southeast Asia Opens Its First Medical Marijuana Clinic in Bangkok. [26][27][28].
19 Dec: Finnish Prime Minister Marin calls for a 4-day-week and 6-hour-day for her country. As in parts of Sweden. Sanna Marin (34) is the youngest female head of government worldwide.
19 Dec: Lesotho. One of the Poorest Countries in Africa Wants to Send Its Legal Marijuana All Over the World. [29][30].
17 Dec: At 25 cents a gram to produce, is outdoor-grown cannabis the key to lower legal prices?
16 Dec 2019: Zambia approves cannabis exports to boost economy. [31][32][33].
13 Dec: Italy legalizes production and sale of cannabis with a maximum of 0.5 percent THC. [34].
12 Dec: 2020 US State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states. [35][36].
11 Dec: Thailand Prime Minister Uses Medical Marijuana At Event With Ganja Mascot. [37][38].
6 Dec: Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Chicago residents can smoke legal weed in their backyards or balconies without being ticketed.
1 Dec: Activist and poet John Sinclair among first to purchase legal recreational marijuana in Michigan, 50 years after his historic arrest. [39][40].

John Sinclair purchases recreational cannabis on Dec 1, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan on opening day

Wikipedia: John Sinclair (poet).

Alcohol can cause seven types of cancer — **Wikipedia: Alcohol and cancer.** [6]. And: **Cannabis is Safer.**

27 Nov: Poopy lettuce strikes again, sickening 67 with E. coli-tainted romaine. 25 Nov: Our food is tainted with E. coli, yet Trump's FDA is rolling back safety rules.
26 Nov: Joe Biden rolls back his stance on marijuana being a "gateway drug". 26 Nov: Chicago. Congressional candidate Anthony Clark gets high in campaign video, claims ‘cannabis saved my life’. 25 Nov: Birmingham Mayor Woodfin introduces plan to pardon misdemeanor marijuana convictions.
22 Nov: Oregon Supreme Court Bans Police From Asking Random Questions During Traffic Stops.
20 Nov 2019: Bill To End US Federal Marijuana Prohibition Passes Key House Committee.
17 Nov: Joe Biden Says Marijuana Might Be A Gateway Drug. [41][42][43].
17 Nov: Thailand Will Soon Allow Its Citizens To Grow Cannabis At Home To Sell To The Government.
7 Nov: Montana Ag Network: Hemp being considered for construction uses.
5 Nov: Massive marijuana shipment confiscated by NYPD is legal hemp: business owner. [44].
4 Nov: Prof David Nutt to lead medical cannabis trial involving 20,000 UK patients.
25 Oct: Bernie Sanders promises to use executive order to legalize marijuana. [45].
This is what happens when you vote in a Republican Senate:

24 Oct: She was expelled for using prescribed medical marijuana, now she's suing the college.

Republicans have declared War on the Middle Class.	22 Oct 2019: French 'more wealthy than Americans and Germans', new study reveals. See median-wealth chart.

Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.

The guy is such a moron. Why are US presidents given such power? Like veto power that requires a 2/3 vote to override. In the 21st century.
21 Oct: Trump humiliated by female astronauts who fact check his space blunder during live call.

Do not buy most most cannabis stocks. There is a huge inventory of unsold cannabis:

21 Oct: Aurora Cannabis Is Dumping Its Pot, Which May Be A Sign It’s All Over. [46][47].

17 Oct: Democrat Governors Of Northeastern States Adopt Coordinated Marijuana Legalization Plan. 9 Oct: Pennsylvania. Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed steps on marijuana legalization.
14 Oct: Scotland’s Ruling Party Unanimously Backs Drug Decriminalization Measure.
12 Oct: Thailand to Host World Ganja Festival 2020. [48]. Jan 29 - Feb 2, 2020. [49][50].

13 Oct 2019: Why Scotland can ill afford to ignore Portugal’s ground-breaking war on drugs. The Scotsman. 16 Jul 2019: Scotland's drug crisis: How Portugal's treatment of addicts halted death toll. Daily Record. 18 Jun 2019: Scotland's drug crisis: Why Portugal started treating addicts as human beings. Daily Record. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Links to many articles on 2001 decriminalization of drugs in Portugal.

Drug deaths per million people. Europe, by country. 16 July 2019 BBC article

Chart from: 16 July 2019: Scotland has highest drug death rate in EU. [51]. BBC News. Data is latest available at article publication. 218 deaths per million for Scotland in 2018. 217 for US in 2017.

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Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).

Germany versus USA — **Source and comments.**

9 Oct: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News.
8 Oct: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class. The Washington Post. From the article: "The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent." Politifact: [52].
6 Oct: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. New York Times.
4 Oct: South Africa. Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers.
4 Oct: Republican Trump just expanded drug testing (including marijuana) to hundreds of thousands of workers. On the other hand: 25 Sep: Democrat-ruled New York City Ban on pre-employment marijuana testing to impact HR policies nationwide, experts say.
25 Sep 2019: Annual fee eliminated for Massachusetts medical marijuana patients.
24 Sep: Australian Capital Territory votes to legalise cannabis for personal use.
14 Sep: Thais allowed six cannabis plants per household under draft law. [53][54]
12 Sep: California bans private prisons – including ICE detention centers.
12 Sep: Elizabeth Warren leads Joe Biden in ranked-choice poll.
9 Sep: South Africa ready to expunge dagga (cannabis) criminal records.
9 Sep: New York woman being held in Russia after arrest with medical marijuana. [55][56].
24 Aug 2019: Sweden. Man Avoids Arrest After Seagull Steals His Weed.
23 Aug: Disneyland Busted Robert Downey Jr. For Smoking Marijuana, He Reveals While Accepting Disney Award. [57].
23 Aug: Buttigieg Pledges To Decriminalize Possession Of All Drugs In First Term As President.
20 Aug: Elizabeth Warren. Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and Strengthen Communities. [58]. And Facebook video and comments. 18 Aug: Bernie Sanders unveils criminal justice reform plan aiming to curb prison population.
13 Aug 2019: Thailand. Rangsit University Opens ‘Ganja Studies Department’. [59].
9 Aug: Did Ohio lawmakers accidentally legalize marijuana? Top law enforcers say yes. [60].
9 Aug: Bernie Sanders: Insane to be arresting some 600,000 people a year for marijuana.

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Cotton versus hemp — **Source with comments.** And: **HempFabricLab.com**

7 Aug: Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise possession, sale, and production of cannabis. Coalition of Liberals, Social Democrats, Greens. [61][62][63].
4 Aug 2019: David Letterman had the best "apology" for calling Trump a racist.
4 Aug: Olivia Newton-John for medicinal cannabis worldwide. Her breast cancer fight.
1 Aug: “Be Water!”: seven tactics that are winning Hong Kong’s democracy revolution. [64].
1 Aug 2019: Short video. American Woman's Medication Costs 10% of US Price in Spain.

Drug prices. Canada versus USA — **Source and comments.**

USA. The state of the nation.

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Global Cannabis March and 420.

President Vladimir Putin. Screwing up elections at home and abroad. Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow City Duma election. And: Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow protests. And: Moscow Mitch blocks election security bills in the US Senate, and nearly all cannabis reform legislation!

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Wikipedia: Nuclear Option: Bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate.

The US has sold wars and weapons to nearly all sides. For example; in the Middle East over the years. And the US has propagandized and sold the drug war and reefer madness to the whole world. The US has not reduced the harm from hard drugs. It has increased harm. The US prefers drug war, not harm reduction and less drug deaths.
George Orwell "1984".

No European democracy has Trump's executive veto power requiring a 2/3 vote to override.

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22 Jul 2019: Philippine march for cannabis. Quezon City, part of Metro Manila. [65][66][67].
24 Jul: Marijuana legalization more popular than free college and $15 minimum wage, poll finds. [68].

Good idea. %	NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. See July 23, 2019 analysis article. See PDF page 15. "Do you think each of the following is a good idea or a bad idea?" [69].
70%	"Medicare for all that want it, that is allow all Americans to choose between a national health insurance program or their own private health insurance".
67%	"Government regulation of prescription drug prices".
63%	"A Green New Deal to address climate change by investing government money in green jobs and energy efficient infrastructure".
63%	"Legalizing marijuana nationally".
62%	"A Wealth Tax, that is a higher tax rate on income above one million dollars".
56%	"A national minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour".
53%	"Free college tuition at public colleges or universities".

US Republican leaders are out of touch with mainstream Americans and Canadians.

21 Jul: Canada. THC slushies, pirate radio, and cannabis-driven boom in a Mohawk community.

USA. The state of the nation

19 Jul 2019: Texas Republican Leaders Want You to Know They Really, Really Hate Marijuana. [70][71][72][73]. 18 Jul: Texas Republican Lawmaker Lies about Pot & Veteran Suicides to Block Medical Access. [74][75].

17 Jul: Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It. Time magazine.
17 Jul: Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Cannabis Reform in the US Senate. [76]. SAFE Banking Act. STATES Act. Veterans Equal Access Act. Descheduling or rescheduling cannabis.
17 Jul: Florida. New hemp laws temporarily halting marijuana-related arrests. [77].
14 Jul: Medical cannabis is gaining momentum in Asia. And China is heavy into hemp.

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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:

Universal healthcare versus drug war.

Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [78]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.

Dove cannabis earth 4 — **2019 Global Cannabis March and 420 event map.**

See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. And: Cannabis polls.

Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.

29 Jan 2020: Pro-Legalization Group Ranks Best And Worst Governors On Marijuana. [79][80].

Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added):
Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C.

A or F? How Congress scores on marijuana. 2. By Danielle Keane, NORML political director. 2016. "Of the 233 Democrats in Congress, 208 members (89.3 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher. Of the 302 Republicans in Congress, 102 members (33.8 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher." For your state see: Congressional Scorecard. NORML. Grading was based upon members' voting records.

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Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [81][82][83].

Timeline. Trump's staggeringly low approval ratings compared to other presidents. Scroll down. Run mouse cursor over Presidential charts. Updated continuously.

2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. 23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.

Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage.

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Presidential power should be abolished. Presidents should be figureheads, like UK's queen.

News: Politico has candidates' positions on many issues, including marijuana. US Republicans lead the war on cannabis. They are the party of endless war. And a genocidal US drug war. See below:

Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N. By Jon Schwarz, Feb 6, 2018, The Intercept. And: Previous article. And: Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq. Mother Jones, Jonathan Stein and Tim Dickinson, Sept 2006. Updated since then.
Wikipedia: US drug overdose death rates and totals over time. Many charts. Portugal is the answer.

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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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Prisoner population rate world map — 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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Correctional population USA — **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.

Total juvenile detention chart for the U.S. — See sources. 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.

U.S. incarceration timeline 4 — **Obama** helped **turn around** the **Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration.** See: **US incarceration peaked in 2008.**

Incarceration rates worldwide — 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.

Share of U.S. correctional population in for drugs — 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.

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.

Total US inmates 2007-8 — From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. See template. See source info.

USA. Adult and juvenile inmate stats. Share link.

Adult incarceration in the USA. Smaller — 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).

US criminal justice cost timeline — $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. [84]. See Wikipedia: Mandatory minimums. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the amounts of crack cocaine required to trigger 5 and 10 year sentences. [85]. See revised charts since then. Share link to this page.

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