133,000 people behind bars in U.S. prisons and jails for drug possession – and 63,000 of these people are held pre-trial, which means they’re locked up simply because they’re too poor to post bail.
Why are we doing this to our citizens, we are supposed to be helping them while all we are doing is mentally and physically hurting them more then the drugs do.
80 percent of those arrests are for simple drug possession.
More than a million people are arrested each year in the U.S. for drug possession,
Decriminalization benefits public safety and health.
Our retrograde federal administration is ramping up the war on drugs – despite widespread public support for ending it and instead focusing our limited resources on health-based approaches to drug addiction and overdose deaths.
why is the government fighting for what they believe is right and not what is best for their citizens, since their citizens have experimented with drugs.
Half of all adults in the U.S. have used an illegal drug at some point.