CONTAMINANTES
The Irrational War on Drugs: The total number of deaths for marijuana each year is zero. With this figure, it should seem odd to Americans that marijuana possession arrests in the year 2000 accounted for over 646,000 of the total 1,579,566 drug arrests. Even more frightening is that marijuana possession arrests grew from 260,000 in 1990 to 646,000 in 2000.
Today, over half of those in prison are there for non-violent drug related charges. Many of these prisoners were productive citizens at one time. But the government has still not explained how it justifies locking up hundreds of thousands of productive citizens, while supporting tobacco and alcohol suppliers that will be responsible for the deaths of over 500 million of the six billion people alive today.