American Drug War – The Last White Hope – Video

Posted: Published on January 30th, 2013

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Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTkofK5cfM



American Drug War - The Last White Hope
**Fight Censorship on YouTube** December 2012, marks the 79th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933. Prohibition brought to the United States: an increase in consumption of hard liquor, organized crime taking over legal production and distribution and widespread anger with the federal government. In the Four decades since President Richard Nixon declared the "war on drugs" in 1971, $1 trillion US Dollars have been spent. After spending $1 Trillion dollars on the "war on drugs," the US has the largest prison population in the world, with about 2.3 million behind bars. More than half a million of those people are incarcerated for a drug law violation. About 40000 people were in US jails and prisons for drug crimes in 1980, compared with more than 500000 today. Excessively long prison sentences and locking up people for small drug offenses contribute greatly to this ballooning of the prison population. It also represents racial discrimination and targeting disguised as drug policy. People of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than white people -- yet from 1980 to 2007, blacks were arrested for drug law violations at rates 2.8 to 5.5 times higher than white arrest rates. Have US drug laws reduced drug use? No. The US is the No. 1 nation in the world in illegal drug use. Rather than continuing on the disastrous path of the "war on drugs," we need to look at what works and what doesn #39;t in terms of real evidence and data. Visit us ...

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