It is Thu Feb 5 2008 Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year Federal-1,969,245,234 State-3,034,876,345 Total-4,992,221,922 The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars. Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion. Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University: "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets," January, 2001. Source: Jeffrey A. Miron, Department of Economics, Harvard University: "The Budgetary Implications of Drug Prohibition," December 2008. People Arrested for Drug Law Offenses this Year Arrests for drug law violations in 2009 are expected to exceed the 1,841,182 arrests of 2007. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.8 million arrests, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2007. Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 17 seconds. Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation People Arrested for Cannabis Law Offenses this Year [SIZE=+3] [/SIZE]Police arrested an estimated 872,720 persons for cannabis violations in 2007, the highest annual total ever recorded in the United States, according to statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of those charged with cannabis violations, approximately 89 percent, 775,137 Americans were charged with possession only. An American is now arrested for violating cannabis laws every 38 seconds. Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation People Incarcerated for Drug Law Offenses this Year [SIZE=+3] [/SIZE]Since December 31, 1995, the U.S. prison population has grown an average of 43,266 inmates per year. About 25 per cent are sentenced for drug law violations. Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Preventable HIV Infections this Year [SIZE=+3] [/SIZE]Nearly 4,000 new HIV infections can be prevented before the year 2010 if the federal ban on needle exchange funding is lifted this year. About 10 new cases could be prevented every day. lol can you belive this shit?
Yea ever since the start of the War on Drugs policy in early 70s it hasnt worked. Its incredibly pointless. And to add to that drug trafficking is 14th on the global trade list. Its a 400 billion dollar a year industry which includes drug cartels, drug mules, etc and of course all the violence that accompanies such an industry when its shrouded by the black market which of course we all know the war on drugs created. The United States spends over 400 million dollars a year to supply blackhawk helicopters to the columbian military in an effort to fight coca plantations. The war on drugs is one of the most prolonged, costly, (both monetarily and human life), and futile policies ever implemented in United States history.
ya exatcly,you really know your shit.but idk what is it gonna have to come to,for the U.S to relize what there doing is a catastrophic waste of human resoursces and man power,if we used all that to better this country who knows were we would be.its really sad when you think about it.
heres an update... It is Fri May 15 2009 Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year Federal-7,524,915,975 State-11,550,719,647 Total-19,075,575,982 big increase from a couple months ago.