jack a. cole [email protected]@leap.cc(617) 792-3877 [email protected] 1
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Represents150,000 police, judges, prosecutors,
prison wardens, and othersIn 120 countries
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The Many Faces of Jack Cole
1964
1970
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If Current Drug Policy Works,Seven things should happen:
1. Drug supply decreases2. Drug purity decreases3. Drug price increases4. Drug use decreases
5. Drug overdose death decreases6. Drug Prohibition murder decreases
7. Drug violation arrest decreases
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Truth: Drug Supply Increased
At the beginning of the war Largest drug seizures
Measured by Pounds
1. Drug supply should decrease
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Truth: Today Single Drug seizures are measured by
23 tons Heroin
1. Drug supply should decrease
20 tons Cocaine
242 tons Marijuana
15 tons Methamphetamine
Tons
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Truth: Purity of street level Heroin increased from
1½ % in 1970 to
60 % today
2. Drug purity should decrease
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Truth: Wholesale Cocaine Prices
Decreased 60 %
3. Drug prices should increase
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Truth: Wholesale Heroin Costs
Decreased 70 %
3. Drug prices should increase
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Truth: Drug Use in the US Increased
Before the Drug War = 4 million users
2 percent of that population
4. Drug use should decrease
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Truth: Drug Use in the US Increased
Today = 121 million
46 percent of current population
4. Drug use should decrease
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Truth: Drug Use in the US Increased
46 percent of current population
4. Drug use should decrease
2 percent of 1965 population
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5. Overdose deaths should decrease
18 times greater rate of
Heroin ODs
Truth: Prohibition Murders Increased
Mexico
95,000 murders and
20,000 missing since 2007
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6. Drug Prohibition murders should decrease
Prohibition Murders per 100,000
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6. Murders increased
United States 5Puerto Rico 30
Mexico 20Guatemala 41
Prohibition Murders per 100,000
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most dangerous nation on the planet
91 Murders
6. Drug Prohibition murders increased
Honduras:
Truth: Nonviolent drug offense arrests
increased
From 65,500 in 1965
To 1.9 million by 2005
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23 times more than at the beginning of the war
7. Drug violation arrests should decrease
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US Tax Dollars SpentProsecuting the War on Drugs
1.5 Trillion
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1972
1974
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5,000,000
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15,000,000
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25,000,000
30,000,000
35,000,000
40,000,000
45,000,000
50,000,000
Cumulative US Arrests for NonViolent Drug OffensesSince 1970
When the WAR ON DRUGS was Declared
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50 Millionand Counting
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Rate of Population Addicted?
1.3% in 1914 when all drugs were legal
1.3% in 1970 when we started the drug war
1.3% Today, after 45-year of war
Nothing changed in 100 years
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Clearance Rates for Violent and Property Crimes
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Clearance Rates for Violent and Property Crimes
Unsolved40% of murders
60% of rapes & arsons75% of robberies90% of Burglaries
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1963 US Police Credited With solving
91 % of MurdersToday
61 % of Murders
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Fail to Protect us from VIOLENT Predators
Today, Police concentrating on nonviolent drugs arrests
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Alternative Policy Solution
Remove the profit motive
End the Violence
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End Prohibition
Legalize and Regulate
All Drugs
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Incarceration Rates inEuropean Nations
At or below
150Per 100,000 population
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Incarceration Rates in theUnited States
By March 2008
1,009Per 100,000 population
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Federal Drug Imprisonments
Percentage Increase of Federal Prisoners from 1970 - 2005
-300%
0%
300%
600%
900%
1200%
1500%
1800%
2100%
2400%
2700%
Cum
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Incr
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Drug Offender Non Drug Offender
+2,558%
+294%3,384
17,302
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The Drug War has been the single most
devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.
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Who Uses and Sells Drugs?
Whites constitute 72% of all drug users in the US
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Who Uses and Sells Drugs?
Blacks constitute 13.5% of all drug
users in the US
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Who Gets Arrested?
37% of those arrested for drug
violations are Black
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Who Goes to Prison?
60% of those instate prisons for drug felonies are
Black
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Who Goes to Prison?
81% of federal drug offenders
are black
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Who Goes to Prison?
Blacks are now serving an average of six years,
while whites are serving only four years.
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Incarceration Rates in theUnited StatesWhite Males
943Per 100,000 population
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Incarceration Rate of Black MalesPer 100,000 population
South Africa - 1993 Under Apartheid 851
United States - 2008Under Prohibition 6,667
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21st-Century Slaves
Corporations Exploit Prison Labor
37 stateshave laws permitting the use of convict labor by private
enterprise
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Corporations Involved
Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, JC Penney, IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq,
Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern
Telecom, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores,
California complains they lost free fire fighting labor
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International Trade in Illicit Drugs
Annually generates:
$500 billion
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This is a mere $207 million
$500 billionwould cover a room 2,415 times this size
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End Prohibition
Legalize and Regulate All
Drugs
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Will legalization cause everyone to use drugs?
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National Zogby PollIf heroin and cocaine were
made legal would you try them?
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Less than 00.6 % said Yes
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Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs?
In the Netherlands
Marijuana use by tenth graders
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Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs?
In the Netherlands
28 %
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Marijuana use by tenth graders in the
United States
41 %
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Drug and Violence Indicators - US and the Netherlands -
Marijuana Use Lifetime prevalence
37% 17%USA Netherlands
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Drug and Violence Indicators - US and the Netherlands -
Heroin UseLifetime prevalence
1.4% 0.4% USA Netherlands
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Drug and Violence Indicators - US and the Netherlands -
Homicide rateper 100,000 population
5.6 1.5 USA Netherlands
Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs in 2001
• 25 % Less Drug Use• 52 % Less Overdoses• 71 % Less HIV infections• 300 % More Treatment
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Switzerland treats Heroin use as Health Problem
• No Overdose Deaths• Lowest AIDS and Hepatitis rates• 20 % Quit Using Any Drug• 60 % Reduction in Crime• 82 % Decline in Heroin users
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Success Story
1985 United States
42% smoked tobacco
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Success Story
Today United States
Only 17% smoke tobacco
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Albert Einstein on ProhibitionThe prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
Albert Einstein 1921
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Prohibition - When will we learn?
Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform pose for a photograph in 1932 (courtesy of the Hagly Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware). We are having to relearn the same lesson today that they learned 69 years ago.
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Prohibition - When will we learn?
Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform pose for a photograph in 1932 (courtesy of the Hagly Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware). We are having to relearn the same lesson today that they learned 69 years ago.
Save our ChildrenStampOut
Prohibition
Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
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Save our Children
Stamp Out Prohibition
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Medical Marijuana Study
• No Increase in use by teens
• 9 % decline in fatal MV Accidents
• 11 % decline in Suicide rates
• 25 % decline in Overdose Deaths
After states legalized it
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7 Countries have Decriminalized All Drugs for Adults
2001 Portugal2005 Chile
2009 Mexico2009 Argentina2009 Colombia
2010 Czech Republic2011 Greece
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States and Country that legalized regulated and taxed Marijuana
2012 Colorado2012 Washington
2013 Uruguay2014 Oregon2014 Alaska
2014 Washington DC
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Police deaths per year•Before alcohol prohibition 102
•During alcohol prohibition 261
•Between alcohol prohibition end and drug war start 144
During the drug war 178
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Alcohol Prohibition Didn’t Work Either
15,000 saloons
32,000 Speakeasys
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30-Day Prevalence of Use of Methamphetamine1999 to 2007
3%
6%
9%
12%
15%
18%
21%
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8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade
30-Day Prevalence of Use of Methamphetamine1999 to 2007
3%
6%
9%
12%
15%
18%
21%
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade
Methamphetamine use decreased Since 1999
-45% for 8th Graders-78% for 10th Graders-65% for 12th Graders
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Inmates there for crimes to get money to buy drugs
State Prisons = 17%Jails = 13%
Federal Inmates = 18%
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Prevalence of Use of Any Illicit Drug (2001 – 2007)
Prevelance of Use of Any Illicit Drug in Last Month
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Prevalence of Use of Any Illicit Drug (2001 – 2007)
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Where Prisoners are Guaranteed
Murder Clearance
1966 Miranda Warning 1968 FBI Uniform Crime Reports
1970 War on Drugs
1983 Crack in LA, CA
Percent of Clearance by arrest for murders in the US
From 1965 to 200875
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When did this… Become this?
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The Real Military Code on the Escalation of Force
“Never point a weapon at someone you don’t intend to shoot.”
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Keene, NH 2012 Population: 23,272Needed Military Grade Bearcat to protect against Terrorist Threats
Citing as a possible target their
“Annual Pumpkin Festival”
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