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Quito, Ecuador. May 5, 2022. See: Source.
Mexico City. May 4, 2019. See: Source. [1].
Cape Town, South Africa. May 5, 2018. See source, with more photos.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 26, 2018. See source. Part of "Green May" (many cities) [2][3][4] in Brazil. See another 2018 photo. See video showing massive crowd (from 1 minute on, especially the time lapse video).
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 6, 2017. See source.
Cape Town, South Africa. May 7, 2016. See source.
Athens, Greece. May 9, 2015. See source, and more photos.
Medellin, Colombia. May 3, 2014. See source. See more photos: 2013 May 4. Also: 2011 May 7. (b, c.)
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 3, 2014. See source. [5]. See also: 2012 May 5 photo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 4, 2013. See source. [6]. See street-level crowd shot.
Medellin, Colombia. May 5, 2012. See more photos: a, b, c.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 19, 2012. See another photo.
Toronto, Canada. May 2, 2009.
Toronto, Canada. May 6, 2006.
May 8, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Million Joint March (La Marcha del Millón de Porros en Madrid, Mayo 2004). See source. [7]. For more info and photos: [8][9][10].
May 4, 2002 in Paris, France in front of the Hotel de Ville. See a source. [11].

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Canada and Portugal. Vs USA.

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. There were around 107,300 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending January 31, 2022. 294 per day. Only around 30 to 55 per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001.

USA. Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. (2. 3.) 24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.

Canadian single-payer healthcare versus US healthcare. Canada's far lower murder rate is from having far fewer handguns per household than in the US. 2. And: Portugal is another country with universal healthcare. It only had around 30 to 55 drug overdose deaths per year the last few years. All drugs have been decriminalized there since 2001. Link: Chart. 2.
Country	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019	Life expectancy. 2019	Murder rate per 100,000. 2020
Canada	$5,418	82.4 years	2.0
USA	$11,072	78.9 years	6.5

Country	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017
Canada	4.9	10
USA	6.5	19

Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14.

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Portugal's decriminalization. Original.jpg

It's 20 years now since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001. Compare to the USA: US Republicans lead war on cannabis. See: Youtube: Portugal’s Drug Laws: Decriminalisation in action. May 16, 2018 video from Australia's Special Broadcasting Service. No one has been arrested for simple possession (under the limits) since drug decriminalization started in Portugal in 2001.

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Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars (mostly outside Medicare and Medicaid) go to something other than health care.

If not for Obamacare, COVID-19 patients with preexisting conditions could’ve been ‘uninsurable’. And: Trump Republicans asked Court to rule Obamacare unconstitutional even as Covid-19 raged. And: Short-term health plans (not Obamacare) leave consumers on the hook for massive medical costs, investigation finds. And: US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [16][17][18].
Source. And: #MedicareForAll. Source and comments.

Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [19]. Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!

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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. 2022 GMM. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US Congress could legalize or deschedule adult-use cannabis at the federal level if the Republican filibuster was gone. Do not vote for US Senate candidates that support the filibuster. [20].

**Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition.** Note high rates in Republican south

**Sao Paulo, Brazil.** June 11, 2022. [12][13]

21 June 2022. Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Life Sentence for Weed Possession. 2.5 ounces. 3 prior felony convictions. None involved actual violence against people. Mississippi is a Republican state. 3rd highest incarceration rate in the world behind Louisiana and Oklahoma. All 3 are far higher than the US as a whole. US has highest rate among countries.
11 June 2022. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 100,000 at marijuana march. See photos. [21] See videos: [22][23]. Video with overhead drone views.
9 June 2022: Thailand just decriminalized cannabis. But you still can't smoke joints, minister says. [24][25][26]. "More than 3,000 inmates serving prison terms for cannabis and hemp-related drug offenses will be released on Thursday. ... And huge festivities are planned this weekend. One event organized by Highland Legalization, a Thai marijuana advocacy group, will see two days of musical performances, panel discussions and cannabis food sales."
11 May 2022: Thailand to Give Away 1 Million Free Cannabis Plants for Home Cultivation. [27].
8 May 2022: Austin voters overwhelmingly say yes to marijuana. [28][29].
8 May 2022: Seven Highlights from the 2022 New York City Cannabis Parade & Rally. [30].
6 May 2022: Germanys health minister Karl Lauterbach confirms on twitter the starting of the process of Legalisation of Cannabis in Germany. [31][32]. They also want a new start in #drugpolicy in general! #DontPunish

Federal cannabis reform also blocked by their filibuster support.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin could save abortion rights but ... they won't.

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2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Germany. 2022 map of many cities with Global Marijuana March events on May 7, etc.. [33][34]. 22 Apr 2022: New Jersey gets high on its own supply as legal weed sales begin. [35].

Photos: People around the globe spark up for 4/20 World Cannabis Day.
21 Apr: New York Joins Colorado and California with Huge 4/20 Smoke-Out. [36].
21 Apr: Bangkok video. Weed-smoking Thais celebrate '420' cannabis day | AFP.
21 Apr: Leafly CEO rings Nasdaq bell on cannabis holiday.
21 Apr: North Carolina Democrats advocate legalizing marijuana on '420'.
21 Apr: 420 Activists shine light on outstanding issues via Australian landmarks.
21 Apr: Berlin, April 20, 2022. Great video and music. 2000 marched. [37].

Multi-city 420 lists

CelebStoner's Ultimate 4/20 Events Guide: 150+ from A-Z. In order by US state.
420 Cannabis Events Calendar for 2022. - PotGuide.com - pick a state or province from dropdown menu.
America’s best cannabis events of 420 2022. Leafly.com - pick a state from dropdown menu.
United States 420 Festival Events. - Eventbrite. Huge multi-page list. Type in a state or city at the top.
CelebStoner, Eventbrite, PotGuide, and Leafly list an incredible number of 420 cannabis events this year. To be listed on the global map page linked higher up, the event page must mention cannabis in some way, or have cannabis leaves, etc. somewhere in the graphics. Just having an event on or near April 20 is not enough. If the event is not exactly on April 20, then 420 needs to be mentioned. Otherwise it is just one of many cannabis events in April. Many 420 events and cities are linked on the map page. Many more need to be added from the other compilations.

18 Apr 2022: Legalizing marijuana lowers demand for prescription drugs, study finds. "The reductions in drug utilization that we find could lead to significant cost savings for state Medicaid programs."
30 Mar 2022: Bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky appears dead. "The measure won approval in the House, but the [Republican] Senate hasn’t brought it up for a vote. Advocates like Julie Cantwell say they’re furious. She says her son used to have 100 small seizures every day. Now, with help from out-of-state medical marijuana, she says he’s been seizure-free for 29 months. ... Support for medical marijuana is widespread in the commonwealth. A poll from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky says nine in ten adults support legalization."

26 Mar 2022: Mitch McConnell’s Confederate Flag Photo Resurfaces as He Announces He Will Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation. [38][39] [40][41]. The Republican roots of the racist drug war go all the way back to President Nixon. See: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.

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25 Mar 2022: Native Americans Are Operating New York State’s First Legal Cannabis Dispensaries.
24 Mar 2022: Japan sees record 5,400 cannabis offenders in 2021. "rising for the eighth consecutive year".
22 Mar 2022: New Mexico set to launch $400 million adult-use marijuana market likely to attract Texans. Many Texans will be liberated in spite of Texas Republican leaders. Article: the fact New Mexico doesn’t have a state cap on licenses "will allow greater entrepreneurialism and opportunities for everyone in the state," Wellington said. ... "Our studies show that 40% to 42% of all adult-use cannabis will be derived from out-of-state purchases, particularly Texas."

Life expectancy vs healthcare spending. US wastes so much money. **Source.**

16 Mar 2022: Delaware. Cannabis legalization backers question ‘suspicious’ amendments before bill fell short in house vote. [42]. Republicans actually lost this vote. But their anti-democracy rule killed the bill: "The three-fifths vote is required on legislation that raises revenues."
13 Mar 2022: New York City. These Weed Sellers Aren’t Waiting for Permits: ‘Like a Dream Come True’.
11 Mar 2022: First New York cannabis licenses to go to hemp farmers and those impacted by war on drugs.
8 Mar 2022: 2022 New York City Cannabis Parade & Rally set for May 7, 2022.

8 Mar 2022: Virginia Bill to Allow Marijuana Resentencing Killed by Republicans.
6 Mar 2022: Stuttgart, Germany. Global Marijuana March on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
6 Mar 2022: Mercury center Brittney Griner reportedly detained in Russia on marijuana charges. [43].
5 Mar: Dude escaping Ukraine during active shelling says he's okay because he smokes cannabis. Tells reporter to legalize it.

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4 Mar 2022: Upstate New York’s Cayuga Nation expands its legal marijuana business. Several of the state’s Indian nations sell cannabis.
4 Mar 2022: Legalization of recreational marijuana in South Dakota now up to voters. Republican House members killed the bill for the last time Thursday. Voters will decide in November.
2 Mar 2022: Texas. Beto O'Rourke promises marijuana legalization after winning governor nomination. Why would anyone vote again for that idiot Republican Greg Abbott, the current governor?
2 Mar 2022: Green Bay, Wisconsin moves to no longer fine people for marijuana possession, if they're at least 21 and it's not too much pot.
2 Mar 2022: Costa Rica Legalizes Medical Marijuana and Hemp. [44]. "Two presidential candidates José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves, who will compete in a runoff election April 3, have both spoken in favor of legalizing recreational use of marijuana."
1 Mar 2022: Medical, smokable marijuana is now for sale in Minnesota.
28 Feb 2022: Virginia. House Republicans Block Bill to Speed Retail Marijuana Sales. [45]
26 Feb: Arizona cannabis industry is booming, report says. Hauling $1.35 billion in revenue last year.

25 Feb 2022: Louisville family held at gunpoint during botched SWAT marijuana raid settles lawsuit for $460K. Some of these cops were later involved in the Breonna Taylor killing.
23 Feb 2022: Court: Medical Marijuana Can’t Be Taxed In New Mexico.
17 Feb 2022: Democrat lawmakers filing bills to legalize marijuana in Kentucky. Now it's up to Republicans who control both houses. Governor is a Democrat.
17 Feb 2022: Psychedelic Reform Possibilities in 2022.
11 Feb 2022: Marijuana Icon Willie Nelson Pushes For The Legalization Of ‘Comfort’ In Super Bowl Ad…For Shoes.
9 Feb: These States Could Still Approve Medical Marijuana in 2022. Republicans are blocking most cannabis reform in the remaining states. Wikipedia: List of state parties of the Republican Party.
9 Feb: CDC: Unvaccinated Adults 97 Times More Likely to Die from COVID-19 Than Boosted Adults. Unvaccinated adults 14 times more likely to die than fully vaccinated adults without booster dose.

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9 Feb: Ohio. Proposal to legalize marijuana faces yet another roadblock in Senate Republican leader.
7 Feb 2022: Senator Joe Manchin Becomes Target In Various Democratic Senate Primaries. Manchin's filibuster support is the target. Also, it is blocking federal cannabis reform.
6 Feb 2022: Casino and ... cannabis? California tribe opens marijuana dispensary in Fresno area. "just one of five tribal-owned dispensaries in the state and the first to be set next to such a large population base."
3 Feb 2022: Mississippi Becomes Latest State to Legalize Medical Marijuana. "Mississippi becomes the 37th state to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes."
29 Jan 2022: Anti-Vax Cop Who Told Guv to ‘Kiss My Ass’ Dies After Battle With COVID. In Washington state. The virus doesn't care if you are macho.
28 Jan: Bill to legalize marijuana in Ohio heads to lawmakers after hitting signature requirements. "We are also fully prepared to collect additional signatures and take this issue directly to voters on November 8, 2022, if legislators fail to act."
28 Jan 2022: Researchers say hemp-based rebar could replace steel in construction.
27 Jan 2022: Kyrsten Sinema Would Lose 2024 Arizona Primary in a Landslide: Poll. [46]. Senators Sinema and Manchin are blocking federal cannabis reform due to their filibuster support.
26 Jan 2022: Hempcrete Submitted for Certification in US Building Codes.
25 Jan 2022: The Anti-vaccine Right Literally Brought Human Sacrifice to America. Article: Tucker Carlson discussed vaccines on half of his nightly broadcasts after Joe Biden became president, “and all but one of those episodes featured a claim that undermined vaccines or vaccination efforts.”

**2022 minimum wages. Republican states.**

US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Republican states have illegal recreational cannabis, high gun death rates, and low state minimum wages, high state incarceration rates, high average indebtedness, and increasing voter suppression. [47].

Today: Google News search: Republicans refuse to get vaccinated. The Covid pandemic would be over by now in the US if not for the lies of the Republican echo chamber. Unvaccinated Republicans are dying in droves.
24 Jan 2022: Thailand. Legalisation of household cannabis, limited recreational use. [48][49][50].
20 Jan 2022: CNN. States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds. With map. [51][52]. See: NRA drug war. US National Rifle Association.
18 Jan 2022: Does Marijuana Enhance Orgasm & Sexual Performance? Why A New Study Says Yes!
16 Jan 2022: 'Wild West' Hits New York City: Unregulated Cannabis Dispensaries Are Booming.
15 Jan 2022: Almost There: Italian Activists Collect Enough Signatures For Marijuana Legalization Referendum. "If the Constitutional Court allows the referendum to go forward, voters are expected to decide on the policy change sometime between April 15 and June 15."
14 Jan 2022: Guns, ammo … even a boat: how Oath Keepers plotted an armed coup.
14 Jan 2022: South Dakota Governor (Republican) Wants Marijuana Activists To Pay Legal Bill For Her Lawsuit That Blocked Legalization.
11 Jan 2022: Minimum wage in Germany to be raised once again in 2022.
11 Jan 2022: Vice News video. The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future.
11 Jan 2022: Mitch McConnell Told To 'Save The Damn Crocodile Tears' After Whining About Voting. "Seems @LeaderMcConnell is weak on the math skills. The Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more Americans than the GOP half."
11 Jan 2022: Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? "FDR struck a deal with the plotters, allowing them to avoid treason charges – and possible execution – if Wall Street backed off its opposition to the New Deal."
6 Jan 2022: Psilocybin Services Would Be Legalized In Washington State Under New Bill. 7 Jan 2022: Oregon launches interest survey for psilocybin services.
3 Jan 2022: Texas. Beto O’Rourke’s blunt support of marijuana legalization gives advocates hope for policy change. Nov 2022 election for governor.
1 Jan 2022: Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. Well, it's a new year and many states have increased their minimum wages. In contrast to the clueless Republican states where poor MAGA Trumpists vote in their own slave masters.
29 Dec 2021: Plant-based, smokable medical marijuana becomes legal in Louisiana on January 1, 2022. [53].
23 Dec 2021: Killed by a pill bought on social media: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens. "A flood of fentanyl-filled counterfeit pills being sold on social media".
21 Dec 2021: How General George Patton’s family entered the cannabis industry in Southbridge, Massachusetts.

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19 Dec 2021: Straight out of Inwood: ‘Legacy’ New York City pot dealers going legit — ‘We got that good work. The best of the best.’
18 Dec 2021: Malta Officially Legalizes Marijuana With President’s Signature, Becoming First In Europe To End Cannabis Prohibition. 13 Dec 2021: Malta to legalise cannabis for personal use in European first. [54].
16 Dec 2021: German Company in Talks With Afghanistan On Cannabis Cultivation. "The previous government was in bed with criminals who wanted to keep a monopoly on illicit cultivation and blocked our contract. Why has the law existed since 2017 and they never proceeded? America has been propping up a corrupt government." 6 Oct 2021: A Glimpse Into Afghanistan’s Traditional Cannabis Culture. 17 Aug 2021: What Taliban Rule Means for Afghanistan’s Drug Trade.
13 Dec 2021: Free Speech Under Attack in Czech Cannabis Crackdown. [55][56][57].
10 Dec 2021: Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers. "Most hospitals and health systems in the state of Michigan have gone to code-red triage, which means they won't accept transfers. ... If you really want to support your staff, and you really want to support health care heroes, get vaccinated".
9 Dec 2021: Filipino journalist shot dead in 'cowardly' killing, say Philippine authorities. "Malabanan last worked with Reuters on the agency's reporting on Duterte's war on drugs, which won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting".
9 Dec: Record number of journalists are in prison right now, according to press freedom report.
3 Dec 2021: Do You Know What’s in Your “Legal” CBD or THC Vape? [58]. "these chemicals can create injury to the lung tissue, ... The study’s authors analyzed 241 vaporizer products, including THC and CBD vaporizers as well as tobacco pods from manufacturers like JUUL and refillable e-juices. In these, they found 350 chemicals." See: Cannabis is safer. Wikipedia: Electronic cigarette. And: List of additives in cigarettes.
28 Nov 2021: Around 9% of towns, villages have opted out of recreational marijuana law in New York. "It appears there is not a major wave of opt-outs sweeping across the state".
24 Nov 2021: Germany's incoming government unveils plans to legalize cannabis and phase out coal. [59][60].

**Philippines. Proposed bill to produce and export medical cannabis.**

Tax the rich! End drug war! The drug war is a control tool of the Republican Party.

Nov 2021: 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC leaders in Drug Policy - SSDP. BIPOC stands for "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color". SSDP = Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
23 Nov 2021: Jury finds Unite the Right defendants liable for more than $26 million in damages. [61][62]. 17 Nov: Black man stomped by South Carolina officer gets $650,000.

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20 Nov: Oregon raid seizes an epic amount of illegal marijuana. 500,000 pounds. [63][64].
19 Nov 2021: Cannabis bust on Indigenous land highlights legal divide. "uncertainty and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities on Native American reservations, as more states roll out legal marketplaces for recreational pot sales."
19 Nov 2021: Indiana Democrats push marijuana reform in 2022. "Because of its popularity with Hoosiers, Schmuhl said the [Democratic] party wanted to be on the forefront of the issue, pushing for cannabis reform. However, with Republicans holding a supermajority in both chambers, Schmuhl admitted chances are slim."
15 Nov 2021: Democrat Beto O'Rourke announces bid to take on Republican Greg Abbott in 2022 Texas gubernatorial race. "He said Abbott and Republicans in Austin have failed to tackle larger issues, including expanding Medicaid, legalizing marijuana, improving the electricity grid and improving schools."
14 Nov 2021: Food banks struggle to feed hungry Americans. Minimum wage needs to be raised in Republican states where it is low. See US map. Click states for rates by state. See tables in Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States

**Putin's prisons in Russia.** Almost as bad as **Syria's torture death camps.**

**Liya Milushkina and Artyom Milushkin.**

11 Nov 2021: Inside Putin’s 'torture conveyor belt' prisons where inmates are 'raped and mutilated'. And: Russian Rights Group Issues More Videos Of Alleged Rape In Prison. 13 Aug 2021: Open Russia activists, Liya Milushkina and Artyom Milushkin, framed: Nearly a decade without Mom and Dad. How officials used dubious evidence to imprison two Russian activists for a combined 21.5 years on charges of drug trafficking and arson. See: Russia. Cannabis-related links.

10 Nov 2021: Senator Warren presses Biden on pardons for nonviolent cannabis convictions. Article: The letter cites the Democratic primary debate in November 2019, during which Biden laid out his views on marijuana reform. "Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period," Biden said at the time. "And I think everyone — anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their records expunged, be completely zeroed out."

9 Nov 2021: Moron Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz said Texas might secede if 'things become hopeless' in the US. Texas polls show that Texans do not agree with Taliban Republican views. Texans, unlike Texas GOP leaders, support abortion rights, cannabis legalization, and a better power grid. [65].

5 Nov 2021: Australia. Mathias Cormann calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be abolished. And: World spends $423 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels.
5 Nov 2021: The United States of Tax Havens. And: Inequality chart.

4 Nov 2021: US. 68% Of Adults — A Record High — Support Legalizing Marijuana. [66]. "Over 48.2 million people in the United States used marijuana in 2019, according to the CDC. It’s now the most commonly used drug behind alcohol and tobacco,"

4 Nov: 5 more drug convictions tied to corrupt Chicago cop vacated. 110 convictions vacated so far. Ongoing investigation into more cops. Prison terms already served by some cops.

3 Nov: Drug Decriminalization in Oregon, One Year Later: 9,000 Less Lives Ruined by Possession Arrests, $300+ Million in Funding for Services. "A year ago, Oregonians voted yes on Measure 110 to remove criminal penalties for possession of drugs and expand access to health services." Compare to Portugal: Youtube: Portugal’s Drug Laws: Decriminalisation in action. Video is from Australia's Special Broadcasting Service. No one has been arrested for simple possession (under the limits) since drug decriminalization started in Portugal in 2001. There were around 107,300 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending January 31, 2022. 294 per day. Only around 30 to 55 per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. [67][68]. See Youtube about Canadian fentanyl overdoses: Kati's story.

2 Nov 2021: Judge throws out man’s guilty plea after bodycam footage reveals New York City cop planting cannabis in cupholder of car of a couple of color. Racist prosecutors delayed releasing footage. Cop had done this before. Calls for prosecuting the cop.
2 Nov 2021: California legalized weed five years ago. Why is the illicit market still thriving? "Vast majority of the market remains underground – about 80-90%. ... Businesses frequently pay an effective tax rate of 70%, in part because they are breaking federal law and therefore aren’t able to take tax deductions." Due to Senate Republicans (!) filibustering federal descheduling of cannabis.

28 Oct: Here’s how Biden’s Build Back Better framework would tax the rich. [69]. "The IRS would hire enforcement agents trained to pursue wealthy tax evaders, ... It estimates these measures would raise $400 billion over 10 years."
27 Oct: 15 States That Could Legalize Cannabis in 2022. "Only 14 states remain without full medical or adult-use legalization. With all traditionally blue states out of the way, red states are now weighing their options." Vote out these dumbass conservative Republicans!

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27 Oct 2021: Private Prison Operator GEO Group Must Pay Inmates Minimum Wage, Jury Rules.
27 Oct 2021: This Weed Influencer Was Arrested for Farming Marijuana. He’s Not Giving Up. Sri Lanka’s leading weed scholar and influencer who has a PhD in the natural sciences.
26 Oct 2021: South Africa. Quanita Booley on the ballot in Cape Town for the Dagga Party. [70][71][72][73].

26 Oct 2021: Elon Musk Made $36 Billion on Monday but Republicans Don't Want to Tax Him. [74]. "Musk infamously paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018. ... Musk’s tax bills in no way reflect the fortune he has at his disposal. In 2015, he paid $68,000 in federal income tax. In 2017, it was $65,000, ... Between 2014 and 2018, he had a true tax rate of 3.27%." 26 Oct: Unrealized capital gains tax: This is the plan Elon Musk and other billionaires don’t like. "Elon Musk, the richest man on earth with a net worth of $289 billion. As Gizmodo points out, Musk increased his net worth by $36 billion yesterday—all in one day. That’s $36 billion he is currently not taxed on, but would be under Biden’s new plan." 26 Oct: How to tax Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. "the 'income' that comes without having to break a sweat or get out of bed deserves to be taxed at least as much as the income most of us get by actually grinding it out on most days."

25 Oct 2021: BBC UK. Minimum wage for 23 and above to rise to £9.50 an hour ($13 an hour). [75]. "Independent experts maintain there has been little or no evidence of job losses as a result of rising minimum wage levels."
22 Oct: TikTok, the company whose censorship decisions are sometimes made by the Chinese dictatorship, bans South African political candidate and cannabis activist, after he posted a viral campaign video about cannabis. [76]. See Wikipedia: TikTok.

The age of mass killings, and authoritarians (or Republican wannabes!) US Drug War. 99,100 drug overdose deaths in last year. 1,015,060 from 1968 to 2019. Putin and Assad: Syrian War. 500,000 dead. Bush: Iraq War. Hundreds of thousands dead. War based on his administration's WMD lies. Trump's "great relationship" Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines Drug War. Tens of thousands killed. Felipe Calderon and Bush: Mexican Drug War. 300,000 homicides since it began in 2006.

22 Oct 2021: Luxembourg set to legalize cannabis production, consumption. [77][78][79]. Excerpts: grow up to four plants per household, making it the first country in Europe to fully legalize the production and consumption of the drug. ... trading seeds would also be permitted ... possible to buy seeds in shops, to import them or to buy them online. ... government of liberals, social democrats and greens agreed in their coalition paper in 2018 ... [Note the lack of dumbass conservative parties!]

21 Oct 2021: New York employers are banned from testing most workers for marijuana.

21 Oct 2021: The Hidden Ways the Ultrarich Pass Wealth to Their Heirs Tax-Free. 8 June 2021: Leaked IRS Data Exposes Exactly How Little Tax America’s Top Billionaires Pay. "nation’s 25 richest people. ... a true tax rate of only 3.4 percent. By comparison, a typical middle-class American household with an annual income of $70,000 pay a federal income tax rate of about 15 percent."

20 Oct 2021: Bolsonaro Committed ‘Crime Against Humanity’ in Botched Pandemic Response, Say Brazil Lawmakers. [80]. "The panel says Bolsonaro is responsible for more than half of those [604,000] deaths for encouraging mass gatherings, opposing masks and vaccines, and pushing unproven 'cures' like hydroxychloroquine. (Sound familiar?)." Wikipedia: Crimes against humanity.

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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [81][82][83].

Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go for something other than health care. Health insurance companies, for example. See also:

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization

USA. The state of the nation.

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CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.

Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.

The drug war is a control tool of the Republican Party.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Henrik Vanger: "Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word 'freedom'?"

Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). And: Remove Presidential veto power.
The filibuster and the presidential veto should be temporary delays before simple majority votes (50% +1).
The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [84].

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The majority of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA are in due to drug-related offenses, crimes to get money for drugs, or drug-related parole or probation violations. Wikipedia: Drug-related crime. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. Obama's Democrat landslide in 2008 turned the incarceration rate around. But the USA still has the highest incarceration rate of any nation (b c). The cost of the U.S. drug war is at least 1.5 trillion dollars. Cannabis is safer! Share link.

See: Drug war cost charts, infographics, and links.

See: Maps of USA showing violence and oppression.

Incarceration rates worldwide[]

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Prisoners per 100,000 population. Gray in the map means no data. See the Commons image page for sources and more info. See **List of countries by incarceration rate**. See template. Article: Compare incarceration rates.

The map may be old. The latest data is here: Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate.
From World Prison Brief. Incarceration rates are based on inmates in both prisons and jails.

USA timeline. Prison, jail, probation, parole[]

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**USA:** Peak of **7.3 million** people in **2007** under adult correctional supervision: On **probation** or **parole**, or **incarcerated** in **jail** or **prison.** About **3.2% of the U.S. adult population,** or **1 in every 31 adults.** More info **here.** See template.

Correctional Populations in the United States. By Bureau of Justice Statistics. See info.

Long timelines of U.S. incarceration[]

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See: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008‎.

November Coalition graph. Some Congressmen and police who prosecuted the War on Drugs now believe it caused a large increase in the United States incarceration rate. See Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and larger chart with sources. See template. Incarceration peaked in 2008.

"I Was Wrong About the War on Drugs – It's a Failure". By Bob Barr (former Republican, former federal prosecutor, and former Congressman). June 11, 2008. AlterNet.
"The solution to the failed drug war". By Jack A. Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Sept. 13, 2008. Boston Globe.

**Obama** helped **turn around** the **Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration.** See: **US incarceration peaked in 2008.**

See sourcing here. See **charts and maps.** Go here for latest incarceration rates for many nations. See Wikipedia list. See this category. Share link. See: **Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.**‎

People in prisons and jails for drug offences[]

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See main article: People in prisons and jails in the USA for drug-related crime.

See also: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate.

489,000 in 2013 (see chart below). For drug offenses alone.

Need to add in drug-related burglary, robbery, murder, etc..
All to get drug money, defend turf, etc..

The Sentencing Project News - Drug Policy.

In 2009 26.4% of those in federal and state prisons, or on probation or parole, were in due to drug offenses. Jail numbers are not included below.

Source: Prisons & Drug Offenders. Drug War Facts.

Cost of U.S. drug war[]

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Cost of U.S. drug war. Even $1.5 trillion dollars is conservative since many crimes are committed in order to get money for drugs. State prisons averaged $31,268 per inmate in 2010. See: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. See: Economics - Drug War Facts. See: 32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs - Business Insider. See: The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition.

A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn't Working. By Serena Dai. *The Atlantic Wire*. 12 Oct 2012. "The numbers on this chart alone don't add up to $1.5 trillion, which represents a more inclusive count of drug control spending, with prison costs and state level costs determined by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, but instead to $800 billion." See: Cost of U.S. drug war. Share link.

USA. Adult and juvenile incarceration[]

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See also: Number incarcerated in the USA peaked in 2008.

The drug war causes the high U.S. incarceration rate.

USA and territories. 2,424,279 inmates in 2008. ...

In 2008 with less than 5% of world population the USA had 2.4 million of 9.8 million world prisoners (b). See latest numbers and World Prison Population List. The majority of inmates in the USA are in due to the drug war. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008.

From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. See template. See source info.

USA. Adult and juvenile inmate stats. Share link.

Source: Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013. See Appendix Table 2 in PDF. From U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Incarceration rate is per 100,000. See template. See juvenile detention numbers.

Cost of criminal justice system in the USA[]

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See main article: Cost of U.S. drug war.

Appendix Table 1. Total justice expenditures, 1982–2007. USA.
Real (inflation adjusted to 2007), and nominal dollars (unadjusted). $228 billion in 2007. Police, corrections, courts.
Year	Nominal dollars (in millions)	Real dollars (in millions)
1982	$35,842	$84,129
1987	58,871	114,484
1992	93,777	154,912
1997	129,793	189,463
2002	179,580	227,672
2007	227,563	227,563
Justice Expenditures and Employment, FY 1982-2007. NCJ 236218. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

$228 billion total in 2007 according to BJS data. $36 billion in 1982 (not adjusted for inflation). Detailed yearly costs timeline is **here** (scroll down). See inflation-adjusted chart. BJS is U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. The **majority of prisoners are incarcerated due to the drug war.** See **drug war charts and maps**. State prisons averaged **$31,286 per inmate** in 2010. See: Costs of U.S. drug war.

U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentences[]

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First mandatory minimums chart below is from an older FAMM report, "Correcting Course: Lessons from the 1970s Repeal of Mandatory Minimum Sentences". FAMM is Families Against Mandatory Minimums. [85]. See Wikipedia: Mandatory minimums. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the amounts of crack cocaine required to trigger 5 and 10 year sentences. [86]. See revised charts since then. Share link to this page.

For charts of all federal mandatory minimums (not just for drug offenses), go here.