HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT BY THE US IN 40 YEARS?

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To lock those people up in federal prisons

Other costs: an overburdened justice system, a strained health care system, lost productivity, and environmental destruction

215 billion

To fight the drug gangs in their home countries

20 billion

450 billion

In marketing "Just Say No"-style messages to America's youth and other prevention programs

33 billion

Law enforcement along America’s borders

49 billion To arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders

121 billion

1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,0000)Since first declared in 1970 by President Nixon, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives.

HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT BY THE US IN 40 YEARS?

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The first drug-fighting budget was $100 MILLION.

The proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 of the Obama Administration was 15.6 billion

HOW HAS THE WAR ON DRUGS CHANGED THE US CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?

Number of people arrested in 2013 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges - the highest incarceration rate in the world

1,574,700prisoners

More than 1.57 million inmates sat behind bars in federal, state, and county prisons and jails around the country as of December 31, 2013. In the federal prisons, more than half of those sentenced to a stints of a year or longer are still there for drug crimes.

Highest Incarceration Rate in the World

In terms of police powers, civil assets forfeitures have been justi-fied to take the drug dealing organizations assets- cash in particular- and use the gains to fund more anti-drug-operations.

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Criminal forfeiture occurs after someone is convicted of a crime - the government seizes all property related to that crime (such as a car that was used to commit a robbery or money earned selling drugs).

Civil Assets Forfeitures

Number of students who have lost federal financial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction

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200,000+students

The nation's drug laws punish students who receive financial aid with drug convictions. After navigating the criminal justice system, these young people then face an enormous barrier when moving forward with their education. Federal grant and loan programs assist millions of students each year that would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend college.

Lost of Federal Financial Aid Eligibility

IS THE WAR ON DRUGS SUCCEEDING?

In the US, the war on drugs mostly impacts minority, particularly black, communities. Although black communities aren't more likely to use or sell drugs, African-Americans are 13 times more likely to go to jail for drugs than whites.

Is war on drugs racist?

Need of Treatment

70% 80%

It is estimated that 70 to 85 percent of the United States’ inmates are in need of substance abuse treatment, which is a far more effective means of handling drug offenders.

Public health policies as top priority

Congress has appropriated $2.4 billion to fight the cartels, as partof the security coop-eration agreement between the US and Mexican governments. That money supports a failed war in which tens of thousands have been killed and thousands more tortured.

The war in Mexico

100,000+ Number of people killed in Mexico's drug war since 2006

SOURCEShttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-trillion-war-drugs-failed-meet-goals/http://www.thehouseilivein.org/get-involved/drug-war-today/http://ssdp.org/assets/2012/07/drug-wars-infographic-600x18601.jpeghttp://www.vox.com/cards/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth/drug-war-law-enforcement-police-militarization-privacyhttp://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statisticshttp://drug-war.us/http://www.alternet.org/drugs/5-nobel-prize-economists-call-end-failed-war-drugshttp://billmoyers.com/2015/03/27/can-say-blowback-spanish/

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