The United States is a nation overflowing with junkies and drug dealers. If you doubt this is true, how else can you explain new statistics that show that there is one drug bust in the U.S. every 18 seconds. That means that there are an average of three drug busts every single minute of every single day in America.
Has the war on drugs failed?
The F.B.I. has released the Uniform Crime Report for 2008, and it does not paint a pretty picture. According to the report, there were 1,702,537 drug arrests in 2008, and 82.3 percent of those arrests were for possession of a contraband substance.
What does it say about a nation when there are 1.7 MILLION drug arrests in that country per year?
44 percent of the arrests were for possession of marijuana. This is prompting many pot advocates to once again call for marijuana legalization. For example, NORML director Allen St. Pierre released a media advisory in which he made this statement: "Present enforcement policies are costing American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of (Read More....)
[...]
