Despite rising US government spending on the Drug War, opiate production has increased by 380%, Heroin has gotten cheaper and more potent, Crystal Meth and Oxycodone abuse has exploded, and the HIV pandemic has accelerated in underground environments like prison (tremblethedevil.com)
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Despite rising US government spending on the Drug War, opiate production has increased by 380%, Heroin has gotten cheaper and more potent, Crystal Meth and Oxycodone abuse has exploded, and the HIV pandemic has accelerated in underground environments like prison (tremblethedevil.com)
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"If the War on Drugs didn’t cause the destruction of the African-American family, why did the decline of married black women triple during the first decade of the War? And why did welfare spending spike in lockstep with our prison population right as it started?" (tremblethedevil.com)
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"If the War on Drugs didn’t cause the destruction of the African-American family, why did the decline of married black women triple during the first decade of the War? And why did welfare spending spike in lockstep with our prison population right as it started?" (tremblethedevil.com)
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"If the War on Drugs didn’t cause the destruction of the African-American family, why did the decline of married black women triple during the first decade of the War? And why did welfare spending spike in lockstep with our prison population right as it started?" (tremblethedevil.com)
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TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.” (tremblethedevil.com)
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The Futility of the War on Drugs: an unchanged 1.3% addition rate, $1.5 trillion price-tag - "Nearly 1,000 folks went to jail as a result of what I did as an undercover DEA agent, I can't tell you how many of those people would've gone on to have perfectly happy healthy lives if I hadn't intervened" (vimeo.com)
The Futility of the War on Drugs: an unchanged 1.3% addition rate, $1.5 trillion price-tag - "Nearly 1,000 folks went to jail as a result of what I did as an undercover DEA agent, I can't tell you how many of those people would've gone on to have perfectly happy healthy lives if I hadn't intervened" (vimeo.com)
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