@Buddha2525
Looks like your assertion that “racial profiling is rare” is bullshit.
Black people make up ~12% of the population, Hispanic people make up ~18%%. Together, they make up 60% of the prison population. 84% of the prison population is incarcerated for possession alone. White people and People of Color use at relatively equal rates. These statistics prove the entire justice system has a racist agenda.
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Did you know....
Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs: $50+ billion
Number of arrests in 2016 in the U.S. for drug law violations: 1,572,579
- Number of these arrests that were for possession only: 1,249,025 (84 percent)
Number of people arrested for a
marijuana law violation in 2016: 653,249
- Number of those charged with marijuana law violations who were arrested for possession only: 574,641 (89 percent)
Number of Americans incarcerated in 2016 in federal, state and local prisons and jails: 2,157,000,
the highest incarceration rate in the world
Proportion of people incarcerated for a drug offense in state prison who are
Black or Latino, although these groups use and sell drugs at similar rates as whites: 57 percent
Number of states that allow the
medical use of marijuana: 30 + District of Columbia
Number of states that have approved legally
taxing and regulating marijuana: 9 (Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington)
Number of states that have decriminalized or removed the threat of jail time for simple possession of small amounts of marijuana: 22
Number of people killed in Mexico's drug war since 2006: 100,000+
Number of people killed in the Philippines in drug war since 2016: 10,000+
Number of students who have
lost federal financial aid eligibilitybecause of a drug conviction:200,000+
Number of people in the U.S. who died from a
drug overdose in 2016: 64,070
Tax revenue that drug legalization would yield annually, if currently-illegal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco: $46.7 billion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that syringe access programs lower HIV incidence among people who inject drugs by: 80 percent