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See videos too. For more photos see: Flat list of event graphics and photos. Alphabetical order by city. There are many more images there than are shown below. Click Full site for images below. 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]. To Top. Or Table top. Or News. Or Home. Return to top.

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The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is an annual rally held at different locations across the planet. It refers to cannabis-related events that occur on the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts, and may include marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals and information tables. See also 4/20 events. See main GMM Facebook pages. GMM city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9. 2010. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22. The Global Marijuana March also goes by the names of the Million Marijuana March (MMM) and the Global Cannabis March. It began in 1999. See New York City, Dana Beal, and Wikipedia: Global Marijuana March. There are local names for the event too. Such as: World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Global Space Odyssey, Ganja Day, J Day, Million Blunts March, etc.. The Global Marijuana March is a celebration embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Participants unite to discuss, promote, entertain and educate both consumers and non-consumers alike. See Category: Featured GMM crowd photos.

Global Marijuana March links.

Latest links for Global Marijuana March. See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches. See the latest GMM graphics, and worldwide GMM city list and map. GMM city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9. 2010. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22.

City lists. Global Marijuana March, 420. Crowd photos.

Global Marijuana March.

2012 GMM in Jakarta, Indonesia.

2012 Nimbin MardiGrass in Australia. Part of Global Marijuana March 2012.

2011 GMM in France. Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. Image is derived from Liberty Leading the People.

2011 GMM in Vitoria, Brazil.

2011 GMM in Bratislava, Slovakia.

2010 Global Marijuana March.

2010 GMM in Mexico City.

2010 GMM in Jakarta, Indonesia.

2009 Global Marijuana March in Portugal.

2008 GMM in Madrid, Spain.

2007 Global Marijuana March in Mexico City.

2006 Global Marijuana March in Leon, Spain.

2005 Global Marijuana March in Argentina. Cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Cordoba.

2004 Million Marijuana March in Moscow, Russia.

2003 Million Marijuana March in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2002 Million Marijuana March.

2001 Million Marijuana March.

2000 Million Marijuana March in London, UK.

1999 Million Marijuana March.

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Nations

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This list of nations is through 2012. Latest list of GMM nations is here.

• The 65 nations are listed in alphabetical order:

Angola. Argentina. Australia. Austria. Belarus. Belgium. Bermuda. Brazil. Bulgaria. Cambodia. Canada. Cape Verde. Chile. Colombia. Costa Rica. Croatia. Cyprus. Czech Republic. Denmark. Ecuador. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Guyana. Hungary. Iceland. Indonesia. Ireland. Israel. Italy. Jamaica. Japan. Lithuania. Luxembourg. Malaysia. Malta. Mexico. Moldova. Nepal. Netherlands. New Zealand. Norway. Peru. Philippines. Poland. Portugal. Puerto Rico. Romania. Russia. Serbia. Slovakia. Slovenia. South Africa. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkey. Ukraine. United Kingdom. United States of America. Uruguay. Venezuela. Vietnam. (Note: To edit this list click any nation, or go to Template:Global Marijuana March nations.)

See also categories: Countries, Regions, and Cities (all city pages, not just GMM cities).

City list by region

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The cities listed below are in alphabetical order in each region and country.

Click a link for any city page and add more info. There is a need for many Wikipedia, Wikitravel, WeBeHigh.com, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other links. Many city pages need more info concerning local cannabis-related activism. Ask for help in forums, and anywhere else. Contact organizers for various cities, and ask for help with the city pages here and elsewhere. Copy links from the detailed city lists here and elsewhere. Find links via the GMM links page too. See Category:Countries. See also: Africa. Asia. Canada. Europe. Oceania. Russia. South and Central America. USA.

Africa

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• 7 cities from 3 nations in Africa have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Angola. Cape Verde. South Africa. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Africa.)

Angola

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1. Luanda, Angola

Cape Verde

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1. Mindelo, Cape Verde - a republic (group of islands) off the west coast of Africa.

South Africa

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1. Cape Town, South Africa
2. Durban, South Africa
3. George, South Africa
4. Johannesburg, South Africa
5. Pretoria, South Africa

Asia

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• 17 cities from 9 nations in Asia have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Cambodia. Indonesia. Israel. Japan. Malaysia. Nepal. Philippines. Turkey. Vietnam. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Asia.)

Cambodia

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1. Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Indonesia

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1. Jakarta, Indonesia

Israel

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1. Eilat, Israel
2. Jerusalem, Israel
3. Netanya, Israel
4. Tel Aviv, Israel

Japan

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1. Nagaoka, Japan
2. Okinawa, Japan
3. Osaka, Japan
4. Sapporo, Japan
5. Tokyo, Japan

Malaysia

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1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nepal

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1. Kathmandu, Nepal

Philippines

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1. Cebu City, Philippines
2. Manila, Philippines

Turkey

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1. Istanbul, Turkey

Vietnam

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1. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Russia

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• 15 cities in Russia (in Asia and Europe) have signed up one or more years since 1999. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Russia).

1. Bryansk, Russia
2. Chelyabinsk, Russia
3. Izhevsk, Russia
4. Kaliningrad, Russia
5. Kaluga, Russia
6. Moscow, Russia
7. Novosibirsk, Russia
8. Orel, Russia
9. Orenburg, Russia
10. Samara, Russia
11. Saratov, Russia
12. St. Petersburg, Russia
13. Tula, Russia
14. Vladivostok, Russia
15. Volgograd, Russia

Europe

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• 180 cities from 33 nations in Europe (and the North Atlantic) have signed up one or more years since 1999. Russia is in both Europe and Asia. 15 cities have signed up since 1999 from Russia. See cities in Global Marijuana March Russia. See: Austria. Belarus. Belgium. Bulgaria. Croatia. Cyprus. Czech Republic. Denmark. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Hungary. Iceland. Ireland. Italy. Lithuania. Luxembourg. Malta. Moldova. Netherlands. Norway. Poland. Portugal. Romania. Serbia. Slovakia. Slovenia. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. United Kingdom. Ukraine. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Europe.)

1. Aarhus, Denmark
2. Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
3. Alicante, Spain
4. Amsterdam, Netherlands
5. Antwerp, Belgium
6. Athens, Greece
7. Aurillac, France
8. Bangor, Wales, UK
9. Barcelona, Spain
10. Basel, Switzerland
11. Bedous, France
12. Belfast, Northern Ireland
13. Belgrade, Serbia
14. Bergen, Norway
15. Berlin, Germany
16. Berne, Switzerland
17. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
18. Bilbao, Spain
19. Birmingham, England, UK
20. Bologna, Italy
21. Bordeaux, France
22. Braga, Portugal
23. Bratislava, Slovakia
24. Braunschweig, Germany
25. Bremen, Germany
26. Brighton, England, UK
27. Bristol, England, UK
28. Brno, Czech Republic
29. Brussels, Belgium
30. Bucharest, Romania
31. Budapest, Hungary
32. Cadiz, Spain
33. Cardiff, Wales, UK
34. Castries, France
35. Chalon-sur-Saône, France
36. Chernivtsi, Ukraine
37. Chisinau, Moldova
38. Christiania, Denmark
39. Clermont-Ferrand, France
40. Cognac, France
41. Coimbra, Portugal
42. Cologne, Germany
43. Constanta, Romania
44. Copenhagen, Denmark
45. Cork, Ireland
46. Darmstadt, Germany
47. Debrecen, Hungary
48. Dessau, Germany
49. Dortmund, Germany
50. Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
51. Dublin, Ireland
52. Duesseldorf, Germany
53. Duisburg, Germany
54. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
55. Ellwangen, Germany
56. Enschede, Netherlands
57. Erlangen, Germany
58. Feldkirch, Austria
59. Flensburg, Germany
60. Frankenthal, Germany
61. Frankfurt, Germany
62. Freiburg, Germany
63. Geneva, Switzerland
64. Ghent, Belgium
65. Glasgow, Scotland, UK
66. Hamburg, Germany
67. Hanover, Germany
68. Helsinki, Finland
69. Hull, England, UK
70. Innsbruck, Austria
71. Jakobstad, Finland
72. Jyväskylä, Finland
73. Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
74. Kiev, Ukraine
75. Klagenfurt, Austria
76. Krakow, Poland
77. Kristiansand, Norway
78. Kuopio, Finland
79. La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
80. Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
81. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
82. Lausanne, Switzerland
83. Lauterbach, Germany
84. Leeds, England, UK
85. Leicester, England, UK
86. Leipzig, Germany
87. Leon, Spain
88. Lille, France
89. Limburg, Germany
90. Linz, Austria
91. Lisbon, Portugal
92. Liverpool, England, UK
93. Ljubljana, Slovenia
94. Locarno, Switzerland
95. London, England, UK
96. Lucerne, Switzerland
97. Lugano, Switzerland
98. Luxembourg (city), Luxembourg
99. Lyon, France
100. Madrid, Spain
101. Malaga, Spain
102. Manchester, England, UK
103. Marburg, Germany
104. Maribor, Slovenia
105. Marseille, France
106. Middlesbrough, England, UK
107. Miesbach, Germany
108. Minsk, Belarus
109. Montpellier, France
110. Munich, Germany
111. Nancy, France
112. Nantes, France
113. Nice, France
114. Nicosia-Lefkosia, Cyprus
115. Nottingham, England, UK
116. Nuernberg, Germany
117. Nyíregyháza, Hungary
118. Oberwart, Austria
119. Odessa, Ukraine
120. Oslo, Norway
121. Oulu, Finland
122. Paris, France
123. Pécs, Hungary
124. Pietarsaari, Finland
125. Pilsen (or Plzen), Czech Republic
126. Pordenone, Italy
127. Porto, Portugal
128. Potsdam, Germany
129. Poznan, Poland
130. Prague, Czech Republic. Global Marijuana March
131. Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
132. Recklinghausen, Germany
133. Rennes, France
134. Reunion, France
135. Reykjavik, Iceland
136. Rome, Italy
137. Rostock, Germany
138. Rotterdam, Netherlands
139. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
140. Schwerin, Germany
141. Seville, Spain
142. Simferopol, Ukraine
143. Sion, Switzerland
144. Sofia, Bulgaria
145. Soltau, Germany
146. Southampton, England, UK
147. St. Gallen, Switzerland
148. Stafford, England, UK
149. Stavanger, Norway
150. Stockholm, Sweden
151. Strasbourg, France
152. Stuttgart, Germany
153. Szeged, Hungary
154. Szombathely, Hungary
155. Tampere, Finland
156. Telford, England, UK
157. Ternopil, Ukraine
158. The Hague, Netherlands
159. Thessaloniki, Greece
160. Torrevieja, Spain
161. Toulouse, France
162. Tours, France
163. Trier, Germany
164. Tromso, Norway
165. Trondheim, Norway
166. Turku, Finland
167. Ulm, Germany
168. Utrecht, Netherlands
169. Valletta, Malta
170. Vienna, Austria
171. Viernheim (Südhessen), Germany
172. Vigo, Spain
173. Vilnius, Lithuania
174. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Euskal Herria, Spain
175. Volos, Greece
176. Warsaw, Poland
177. Weymouth, England, UK
178. Winterthur, Switzerland
179. Wolfenbuttel, Germany
180. Zagreb, Croatia
181. Zaragoza, Spain
182. Zielona Gora, Poland
183. Zurich, Switzerland

Oceania

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• 19 cities from 2 nations in Oceania have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Australia. New Zealand. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Oceania.)

Australia

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1. Adelaide, Australia
2. Canberra, Australia
3. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
4. Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
5. Melbourne, Australia
6. Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia
7. Sydney, Australia

New Zealand

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1. Auckland, New Zealand
2. Christchurch, New Zealand
3. Dunedin, New Zealand
4. Hamilton, New Zealand
5. Hastings, New Zealand
6. Invercargill, New Zealand
7. Levin, New Zealand
8. Motueka, New Zealand
9. Napier, New Zealand
10. New Plymouth, New Zealand
11. Tauranga, New Zealand
12. Wellington, New Zealand

Latin America

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• 106 cities from 11 nations in Latin America have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Argentina. Brazil. Chile. Colombia. Costa Rica. Ecuador. Guyana. Mexico. Peru. Uruguay. Venezuela. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Latin America.)

1. Americana, Brazil
2. Antofagasta, Chile
3. Aracaju, Brazil
4. Arequipa, Peru
5. Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
6. Bahia Blanca, Argentina
7. Bariloche, Argentina
8. Barquisimeto, Venezuela
9. Barrancabermeja, Colombia
10. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11. Bogota, Colombia
12. Brasilia, Brazil
13. Buenos Aires, Argentina
14. Calama, Chile
15. Cali, Colombia
16. Campo Grande, Brazil
17. Caracas, Venezuela
18. Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
19. Concepcion, Chile
20. Coquimbo, Chile
21. Cordoba, Argentina
22. Cuiaba, Brazil
23. Curitiba, Brazil
24. Cusco, Peru
25. Diadema, Sao Paulo, Brazil
26. El Bolson, Argentina
27. Florianopolis, Brazil
28. Florida, Uruguay
29. Formosa, Argentina
30. Fortaleza, Brazil
31. Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
32. Fray Bentos, Uruguay
33. Georgetown, Guyana
34. Goiania, Brazil
35. Guarulhos, Brazil
36. Guayaquil, Ecuador
37. Huanchaco, Peru
38. Ibague, Colombia
39. Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
40. Iquique, Chile
41. Joao Pessoa, Brazil
42. Joinville, Brazil
43. Juiz de Fora, Brazil
44. La Plata, Argentina
45. La Rioja, Argentina
46. Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
47. Leon, Mexico
48. Lima, Peru
49. Manaus, Brazil
50. Mar del Plata, Argentina
51. Maracaibo, Venezuela
52. Maracay, Venezuela
53. Natal, Brazil
54. Medellin, Colombia
55. Mendoza, Argentina
56. Merida, Mexico
57. Merida, Venezuela
58. Mexico City, Mexico
59. Montevideo, Uruguay
60. Neuquen, Argentina
61. Niteroi, Brazil
62. Nova Iguacu, Brazil
63. Obera, Argentina
64. Parana, Argentina
65. Patos, Brazil
66. Pereira, Colombia
67. Petropolis, Brazil
68. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
69. Posadas, Argentina
70. Presidente Prudente, Brazil
71. Punta Sal, Peru
72. Quito, Ecuador
73. Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
74. Resistencia, Argentina
75. Rio Cuarto, Argentina
76. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
77. Rio Grande, Argentina
78. Rosario, Argentina
79. Salta, Argentina
80. Salvador, Brazil
81. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina
82. San Jose, Costa Rica
83. San Juan, Argentina
84. San Luis, Argentina
85. San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
86. San Pedro de Misiones, Argentina
87. San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
88. Santa Fe, Argentina
89. Santiago del Estero, Argentina
90. Santiago, Chile
91. Santos, Brazil
92. Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil
93. Sao Paulo, Brazil
94. Tarapoto, Peru
95. Temuco, Chile
96. Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
97. Teresina, Brazil
98. Trelew, Argentina
99. Uberlandia, Brazil
100. Ushuaia, Argentina
101. Valdivia, Chile
102. Valencia, Venezuela
103. Valparaiso, Chile
104. Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
105. Venado Tuerto, Argentina
106. Vitoria, Brazil

Nearby islands

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• 7 places from 5 nations have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Bermuda. France. Jamaica. Puerto Rico. Trinidad and Tobago.

1. Bermuda
2. Guadeloupe, France
3. Hamilton, Bermuda
4. Kingston, Jamaica
5. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
6. San Juan, Puerto Rico
7. Vega Alta, Puerto Rico

North America

Canada

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• 37 cities from 8 provinces of Canada have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Canada.)

1. Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
2. Acton, Ontario, Canada
3. Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
4. Banff, Alberta, Canada
5. Brantford, Ontario, Canada
6. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
7. Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada
8. Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
9. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
10. Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
11. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
12. Hearst, Ontario, Canada
13. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
14. Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
15. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
16. London, Ontario, Canada
17. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
18. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
20. Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
21. North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
22. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
23. Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
24. Prince Edward Island, Canada
25. Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
26. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
27. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
28. Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
29. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
30. Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
31. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
32. Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
33. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
34. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
35. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
36. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
37. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

United States

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• 368 cities from all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) of the United States of America have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware. District of Columbia. Florida. Georgia. Hawaii. Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New York. North Carolina. North Dakota. Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee. Texas. Utah. Vermont. Virginia. Washington. West Virginia. Wisconsin. Wyoming. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities USA.)

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1. Abilene, Texas, USA
2. Aiken, Georgia, USA
3. Akron, Ohio, USA
4. Albany, New York, USA
5. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
6. Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
7. Alpine, Texas, USA
8. Alva, Oklahoma, USA
9. Amarillo, Texas, USA
10. Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
11. Anaheim, California, USA
12. Anchorage, Alaska, USA
13. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
14. Annapolis, Maryland, USA
15. Arcadia, Florida, USA
16. Arcata, California, USA
17. Arlington, Texas, USA
18. Asheville, North Carolina, USA
19. Ashland, Ohio, USA
20. Athens, Georgia, USA
21. Athens, Ohio, USA
22. Atlanta, Georgia, USA
23. Augusta, Maine, USA
24. Austin, Texas, USA
25. Bakersfield, California, USA
26. Batesville-Oxford, Mississippi, USA
27. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
28. Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
29. Baxter, Tennessee, USA
30. Bellingham, Washington, USA
31. Belmar, New Jersey, USA
32. Bend, Oregon, USA
33. Bennington, Vermont, USA
34. Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
35. Billings, Montana, USA
36. Binghamton, New York, USA
37. Birmingham, Alabama, USA
38. Bishop, California, USA
39. Boca Raton, Florida, USA
40. Boise, Idaho, USA
41. Boone, North Carolina, USA
42. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
43. Boulder, Colorado, USA
44. Bozeman, Montana, USA
45. Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA
46. Buffalo, New York, USA
47. Bullhead City, Arizona, USA
48. Burlington, Vermont, USA
49. Camden, New Jersey, USA
50. Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
51. Carbondale, Illinois, USA
52. Casper, Wyoming, USA
53. Cassopolis, Michigan, USA
54. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
55. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
56. Charleston, South Carolina, USA
57. Charleston, West Virginia, USA
58. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
59. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
60. Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
61. Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
62. Chicago, Illinois, USA
63. Chico, California, USA
64. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
65. Clemson, South Carolina, USA
66. Cleveland, Ohio, USA
67. Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA
68. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
69. Columbia Falls, Montana, USA
70. Columbia, Missouri, USA
71. Columbia, South Carolina, USA
72. Columbus, Indiana, USA
73. Columbus, Ohio, USA
74. Commack, New York, USA
75. Concord, New Hampshire, USA
76. Concord, North Carolina, USA
77. Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
78. Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
79. Corvallis, Oregon, USA
80. Crescent City, California, USA
81. Daingerfield, Texas, USA
82. Dallas, Texas, USA
83. Dansville, New York, USA
84. Dayton, Ohio, USA
85. DeKalb, Illinois, USA
86. Denver, Colorado, USA
87. Derry, New Hampshire, USA
88. Des Moines, Iowa, USA
89. Detroit, Michigan, USA
90. Dinuba, California, USA
91. Dover, Delaware, USA
92. Duluth, Minnesota, USA
93. Durham, New Hampshire, USA
94. Eaton, Maine, USA
95. Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
96. Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
97. El Paso, Texas, USA
98. Elkhart, Indiana, USA
99. Elkins, West Virginia, USA
100. Enid, Oklahoma, USA
101. Escanaba, Michigan, USA
102. Eugene, Oregon, USA
103. Eureka, California, USA
104. Everman, Texas, USA
105. Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
106. Fargo, North Dakota, USA
107. Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
108. Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
109. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
110. Flint, Michigan, USA
111. Fontana, California, USA
112. Fort Bragg, California, USA
113. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
114. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
115. Fort Myers, Florida, USA
116. Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
117. Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
118. Fort Worth, Texas, USA
119. Fresno, California, USA
120. Gainesville, Florida, USA
121. Garberville, California, USA
122. Garden Grove, California, USA
123. Gig Harbor, Washington, USA
124. Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
125. Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
126. Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
127. Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
128. Grass Valley, California, USA
129. Great Falls, Montana, USA
130. Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
131. Greenville, North Carolina, USA
132. Gunnison, Colorado, USA
133. Hachita, New Mexico, USA
134. Hammond, Indiana, USA
135. Hanford, California, USA
136. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
137. Hartford, Connecticut, USA
138. Havazu City, Arizona, USA
139. Hayward, California, USA
140. Helena, Montana, USA
141. Hempstead, New York, USA
142. Hilo, Hawaii, USA
143. Holland, Michigan, USA
144. Hollywood, Florida, USA
145. Homer, Alaska, USA
146. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
147. Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
148. Houston, Texas, USA
149. Huntington Beach, California, USA
150. Huntsville, Alabama, USA
151. Huron, South Dakota, USA
152. Independence, Iowa, USA
153. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
154. Iowa City, Iowa, USA
155. Ithaca, New York, USA
156. Jackson, Michigan, USA
157. Jackson, Mississippi, USA
158. Jacksonville, Florida, USA
159. Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
160. Joplin, Missouri, USA
161. Juneau, Alaska, USA
162. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
163. Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
164. Kalispell, Montana, USA
165. Kansas City, Kansas, USA
166. Kansas City, Missouri, USA
167. Kearney, Nebraska, USA
168. Kendallville, Indiana, USA
169. Kent, Ohio, USA
170. Key West, Florida, USA
171. Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
172. Kokomo, Indiana, USA
173. La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
174. Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
175. Lake Isabella, California, USA
176. Lansing, Michigan, USA
177. LaPorte, Indiana, USA
178. Largo, Florida, USA
179. Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
180. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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198. Marysville, California, USA
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The forever drug war

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US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war.

Republican gerrymandering and filibustering will allow the cannabis war to go on forever. At least in US Republican states. The US Congress could legalize or deschedule adult-use cannabis at the federal level if the Republican filibuster was gone. So do not vote for US Senate candidates of either party that support the filibuster. [13].

See Wikipedia: Gerrymandering.

Nixon's racist drug war

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Republican President Richard Nixon (in office January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974) initiated the militant racist tone of the forever drug war.

The Republican Party has used its Drug War as a 50+ year distraction. All to serve the rich. See: Republican President Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies. See Wikipedia: War on drugs. See Race, ethnicity, and drug war. See Wikipedia: Southern Strategy - Keeping poor whites and blacks fighting against each other, instead of the real enemy: rich Republican tax evaders. See Wikipedia: Nixon's Enemies List, of journalists, actors, union leaders, etc. who expose it all. A GOP playbook that has never ended, and played out yet again by billionaire Trump until he was dumped in 2020.

This quote from Nixon aide John Ehrlichman (in 1994) is from an April 2016 Dan Baum article in Harper's Magazine: Legalize It All. How to win the war on drugs. Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
See: CNN info. See article: Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies.

US Republican states

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See Wikipedia: List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States).

See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. And: Cannabis war. Part of Republican war on poor. And: US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war. And: NRA drug war. US National Rifle Association. And: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars. And: USA. The state of the nation.

Mostly in U.S. Republican states.

Percent of adults with overdue debt in collections. By county. See map.

See Wikipedia: Firearm death rates in the United States by state. And CNN: States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds.

Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. See map.

Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate. Map is for sentenced state prisoners only. No Federal or local jail inmates. See map.

Republican minimum wages

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Why do US Republican leaders hate Americans? Why won't they raise the US federal minimum wage above $7.25? 62% in US support a $15 federal minimum wage. Stop voting in Republicans if you don't want the low minimum wages found in Republican states.

7 Oct 2021: Reallocation effects of the minimum wage. "In January 2015, Germany introduced a uniform minimum wage of €8.50 [$10 an hour today]. ... boosted wages of low-wage workers, did not lower employment, and induced a reallocation toward more productive establishments." 11 Jan 2022: Minimum wage in Germany to be raised once again in 2022.

Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. See map. See Commons map.

US minimum wage peaked in 1968 in inflation-adjusted dollars. $13.16 in 2022 dollars. [14]. See chart.

Cannabis is safer.

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USA. The state of the nation.

Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.

16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."

2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposed Cannabis Legalization. He opposed 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis.

23 Feb 2019: Trump Continued to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.

See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.

Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example."

Share link: Obama.

• Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [15]. See video.
• USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [16][17][18][19][20].

See longer article: Cannabis is safer.

• Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.

• Obama on marijuana legalization. [21]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.

Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [22][23][24].

• Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [25]. December 2015.

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

• Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [26]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.

Register and vote for cannabis.

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Today's far-right Republicans

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US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. See also: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.

News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation.

11 Aug 2021: Billionaires worldwide gained $5.5 trillion during pandemic. [27]. Hunger. [28]. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage. [29].

USA. The state of the nation.

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$70 billion to end pandemic

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• 11 Aug 2021: Article. "The world’s 2,690 global billionaires saw their combined wealth rise from $8 trillion on March 20, 2020 to $13.5 trillion as of July 31, 2021, ... The cost of vaccinating the world’s adult population was calculated as follows: two doses at $7 per dose for 5 billion people, for a total of $70 billion."
• 12 Aug 2021: One-off emergency tax on billionaires’ pandemic windfalls could fund Covid-19 jabs for all and cash grant to all unemployed workers.

Mask mandates work

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29 Aug 2021: CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID.
28 Aug 2021: Do face masks work? Here are 49 scientific studies that explain why they do.

GOP taxes screw middle class

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Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.

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Republican filibuster equals

The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [30]. See Wikipedia: Filibuster.

US voter suppression

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20 Oct 2021: Senate Republicans use filibuster to again block sweeping voting rights bill.

• See Wikipedia: Disenfranchisement. And Wikipedia: Voter suppression.

Republicans have disenfranchised black, brown, and poor white people via "The New Jim Crow"; the drug war and mass incarceration. See: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.

Quote. [12].

Black votes matter.

High US taxes on poor

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The forever war on the poor. Republican filibuster says to Americans: "Heads we win, tails you lose." Democracy? What democracy?

When Democrats have the majority, the Republican minority uses the filibuster to block higher taxes on the rich, and to block lower taxes on the middle class and poor. When Republicans have the majority they use budget reconciliation to use their simple majority to lower taxes on the rich, and increase user fees, sales taxes, and other regressive taxation to increase taxes on the poor and middle class.

This is the whole purpose of the US Republican Party. To serve the rich. Period.

Minimum wage workers crushed while serving the Republican low-tax-paying rich:

And on US middle class

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Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.

Chart source.

Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds.	"By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries".
2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2.

Low US minimum wage

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17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [31].

The filibuster and presidential veto should be short delays before 50% +1 votes. Stop Republican wars on cannabis, voting rights, abortion rights, universal healthcare, and living wages: Source. & US minimum wage. Minimum wage by country.

2 Jul 2019: There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.

High wealth inequality

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Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts. See Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - From the 2021 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($125,688) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($79,274). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Low federal minimum wage. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.

Chart below. USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.

Republicans wasted $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion) based on Bush/CIA WMD lies. Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.

• 5 Oct 2017: Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (Updated).

US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [32]. See chart below.

Middle class wealth collapsing. [33]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.

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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2021 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.

	Country	Median wealth per adult. US dollars
1	Luxembourg	259,899
2	Australia	238,072
3	Iceland	231,462
4	Belgium	230,548
5	Hong Kong	173,768
6	New Zealand	171,624
7	Denmark	165,622
8	Switzerland	146,733
9	Netherlands	136,105
10	France	133,559
11	United Kingdom	131,522
12	Canada	125,688
13	Japan	122,980
14	Italy	118,885
15	Norway	117,798
16	Spain	105,831
17	Ireland	99,028
18	Taiwan	93,044
19	Austria	91,833
20	Sweden	89,846
21	South Korea	89,671
22	Singapore	86,717
23	Malta	84,390
24	Qatar	83,680
25	Israel	80,315
26	United States	79,274

Low quality of life

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See: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.

Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).

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High household debt

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US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.

Total Household Debt by Type:

Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.

High US medical debt

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This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.

17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.

High student loan debt

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• Student Loan Debt by State. Map, table, and article.
• 15 July 2021: Student Loan Debt Statistics: 2021. U.S. student loan debt totals $1.6 trillion as of March 31, 2021.

Public elementary and secondary school in the USA costs an average of $14,891 a year per student in taxes. The money spent between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of full-board-and-tuition college. Look at Scotland: Adult at age 16. Scotland. What can I do at my age? And: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. And: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe". See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age.

Punitive bankruptcy law

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• No Fresh Start: Will States Let Debt Collectors Push Families Into Poverty In The Wake of a Pandemic? US map with state-by-state grades on the fairness of bankruptcy laws. "NCLC surveys the exemption laws of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Sadly, not one jurisdiction’s laws meet basic standards so that debtors can continue to work productively to support themselves and their families."
• Model Family Financial Protection Act. Including fairer bankruptcy and debt laws.
• Debt in America: An Interactive Map. 29% of all adults. 24% of whites. 39% of people of color. See the map there, and below. See the astonishing percentages of adults with debt in collection. By county. Especially in the South. The South has been greatly impoverished by low Republican minimum wages, lack of expanded Medicaid, unfair bankruptcy laws, massive evictions (past and upcoming).

Stagnant US wages

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USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.

See above chart source. [34]. And source article.

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Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.

Above graph source. And: Source 2.

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10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006."

2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."

Racist law enforcement

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The KKK owns law enforcement today in the Republican state of Florida.
27 July 2021: Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river. "Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons."

Poorly rated healthcare

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• 6 Aug 2021: Stunning new report ranks US dead last in health care among richest countries—despite spending the most. "The U.S. also had the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy at age 60 compared with other countries. ... The poor performance is nothing new, as the U.S. has landed in last place in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has released since 2004."

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

No universal healthcare

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Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all came from Democrats. You pay the taxes while healthier. Republicans prefer you die. 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. [35]

Google search: 26,000 Americans die each year from not having health insurance.

Source and comments.

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Single payer costs less

• See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

Portugal's drug decrim equals

50 drug overdose deaths yearly

Vs 100,000 yearly US deaths

There were around 106,800 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending November 30, 2021. 293 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. 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 2001.

Source.

President Eisenhower. 1953:

His 91% top marginal tax rate

Equaled prosperity for more.

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Eisenhower was not a socialist. He did not support state ownership of industries and businesses.
Eisenhower, an economically progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.

There was a higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s. It was 42% when totaling federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%. See chart below.

Chart below. See: Highest US marginal income tax rates over time.

Above chart source. And: Source 2.

Chart below. Timeline of top US federal marginal tax rate.

Republican President Lincoln

Created first progressive

US federal income tax.

Progressive Capitalism

Is not Socialism, and

It is not state ownership.

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Republican president Abraham Lincoln did not believe in state ownership of industries and businesses. So he was not a "socialist". Socialism was not well known at that time. See Wikipedia: Socialism.

In the United States, the first progressive federal income tax was established by the Revenue Act of 1862. The act was signed into law by Lincoln. It replaced a flat tax. See Wikipedia: Progressive tax.

Lincoln's economically progressive message below. What a contrast to today's far-right Republican leaders. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

More sources: [36]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.

Thomas Paine on the poor

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Thomas Paine statue below in Thetford, England. See: Paine Wikiquotes. Search for "poor" within those quotes. For example:

When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government.

Paine was nothing like today's Republican Party.

Overpopulation = Warming

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Politicians need to incentivize more hempcrete construction [37][38][39], so that carbon dioxide levels go down. But that is not enough to stop global warming.

Overpopulation equals more global warming via less greenspace removing carbon dioxide.

• Side-by-side photos. Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe. High tide could flood 800 million people by 2060s.
  
• Wikipedia: List of countries by population (United Nations). Shows population increase rates.
• Wikipedia: List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate.

Many clueless Republican leaders deny it all. They also block free birth control via universal healthcare. See Wikipedia: Single payer healthcare. It costs less per person and gets better results. See:

• Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

As countries prosper in a just and fair way their population stabilizes. See median wealth by country:

• Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.

Migration has to be limited to within regions of several countries. Countries with low birth control can not dump their overpopulation on to the whole world. There must be multinational aid to fund birth control, not unlimited migration.

See crowded beach below and link:

• Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.

Global warming. Roswell tech

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Walter Haut in 1947

Roswell Daily Record.
July 8, 1947

Roswell UFO craft and alien body retrieval was real according to U.S. Army officer Walter Haut. He signed affidavits to that effect in 1993 and 2002. Released in 2007 after his death in 2005. Video made in 2000. Released in May 2021. Much of the technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could possibly end global warming. Share link: Roswell UFO. Articles about Haut:

17 Aug 2021: “My father saw the bodies”: chasing the truth about Roswell. By James Jennings. Archived here.

14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.

May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article: "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."

30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Archived here.

2002 and 1993 affidavits. Archived here. Scroll down for the affidavits.

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