Criminal Records & Dodgy Numbers

A collection of the worst numbers and most criminal records known to mankind:

Citations:

UK spends £19billion on the 'War on Drugs' -

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2010-06-15a.948.0&s=speaker:13885...

U.S spent over 40 years $1trillion on the 'War on Drugs' -

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10642775

You're 6 times more likely to be arrested and 11 times more likely to be imprisoned as a black UK resident -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/31/race-bias-drug-arrests-claim

U.S incarcerated 37million non violent drug offenders -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y9KqvVggY

U.N: To impact the 'War on Drugs' we need to seize 60-70% of heroin imports; we stop 1% (Professor McKeganey @17.30mins) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kWt5_kkcj0

U.N: Global drugs trade worth $320billion -

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2005/volume_1_web.pdf

UK has worst drug problem in Europe -

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/uk-ha...

MEXICO DRUG WAR - death tally -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/14/mexico-drug-war-murders-m...

Portugal -

http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/07/21/bjc.azq038.abstract

Portugal 2 -

http://mobile.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/04/08/portugal

Transform Drug Policy Foundation - TDPF -

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/

LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) -

http://www.leap.cc/

Release -

http://www.release.org.uk/

Drug Equality Alliance (DEA) -

http://www.drugequality.org/

Students For Sensible Drug Policy -

http://ssdp.org/

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• drugs
• cannabis
• weed
• prohibition
• HomeGrownOutlaw
• mexico
• drug war
• outlaw prohibition
• transform
• drug equality alliance
• release
• LEAP

[swannstar26]

excellent info for those who don't understand the mess we are in. a 1p/c success rate on a £19 BILLION spend, a year ! A YEAR !!!

good work jason and i'm enjoying your informative arguments on Peter's blog, keep it up!