Drug Prohibition Slides

This information is supplied by:

National Coalition Against Prohibition (NCAP); Save our Liberties; Eric N. Harlow, Founder, Chairman, Organizer; 187 Acalanes Dr., #14, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086-5520; (415) 964-3655.

Here is a catalog of the slides:

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Here is the text of the slides:

• Slide 01:

  THE INSANE WAR

  A Cancer is Destroying The Fabric of American Society.

  It is the WAR on DRUGS!

  Let me show you why.

  Save our Liberties, 187 Acalanes Dr., #14, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086-5520.

  Graphic design by Fuller Art Enterprises.

• Slide 02:

  How big of a problem are illicit drugs?

  And, does that problem come close to the problems created by Prohibition?

  NO!

  • Before Drug Prohibition, narcotics were a minor problem compared to other substances abused at that time. The same is true today.
  • There is simply no evidence that Drug Prohibition works. Addiction rates were little different from today and quite probably not as high.
  • But, we certainly did not have the CRIME PROBLEM associated with our present DRUG LAWS.
  • The substances of abuse today that kill and disable large numbers of people are not today's illicit drugs -- and never have been -- even when legally available and cheap!
• Slide 03:

  DRUG RELATED DEATHS

  Number of Deaths Per Year Attributed to Illegal Drug Use

  1981-1989 / Opiates (Heroin), Cocaine, PCP, Amphetamines.

  Data source: Narcotics Intelligence Nat. Narc. Intelligence Consumers Comm. & Pres. Comm., Am. Hab. 1986. Pages 15-68.

• Slide 04:

  SUBSTANCE ABUSE RELATED DEATHS

  Number of Deaths Per Year in THOUSANDS OF DEATHS

  1981-1989 / Tobacco, Obesity, Alcohol, Opiates (Herion), Cocaine

  Data source: See reference sheet plus Nat. Narc. Intelligence Consumers Comm. & Pres. Comm., Am. Hab. 1986. Pages 15-68.

• Slide 05:

  SUBSTANCE ABUSE RELATED DEATHS

  Mortaility from Major Forms of Abuse (per year)

  Obesity, Tobacco, Alcohol, Illicit Drugs

  Tobacco and obesity-related mortalityand morbidity dwarf any other factors in early death, disability, and medical care costs.

• Slide 06:

  SUBSTANCE ABUSE RELATED DEATHS

  Mortaility from Major Forms of Abuse

  Substance Abuse Related Deaths

  Magnified view of Illicit Drug Deaths

  Sources from various government publications. That for drugs is from The President's Commission on Organized Crime: America's Habit, 1986, combined with more recent estimates.

• Slide 07:

  HABITUAL USE POTENTIAL

  Of People Who Have Ever Tried a Drug

  The Percentage Using It In Past Month

  • Hallucinogens* - 8.9%
  • PCP* - 10.4%
  • Inhalents - 13.2%
  • Sedatives - 13.3%
  • Stimulants - 14.1%
  • Tranquilizers - 14.2%
  • Analgesics - 16.7%
  • Heroin* - 20.7%
  • Cocaine - 24.8%
  • Marijuana - 28.9%
  • Tobacco - 41.6%
  • Alcohol - 68.8%

  Data from NIDA National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Population Estimate 1985.

  * Small sample size.

• Slide 08:

  RISK OF DEATH

  Deaths per year per 100,000 people at risk related to various factors

  Risk Factors: Automobile, PCP, Cocaine, Marijuana, Heroin, Alcohol, Tobacco, Obesity

  Based on U.S. Gov. figures in Pres. Comm. Am. Hab., 1986, Stat. Ab. U.S., 1989. NIDA House. Surv. 1985. etc. See text.

• Slide 09:

  It's not drugs --

  It's

  DRUG LAWS

  That Create CRIME and VIOLENCE!

• Slide 10:

  HOMICIDE

  Rates for homicides from 1900 to Present

  Source: Historical Stat., Colonial Times to 1970, series h 971-986. Vital Stat. of the United States, annual.
• Slide 11:

  FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONERS

  Inmates Sentenced to a Maximum of One Year or More

  Source: Stat. Abstr. of the U.S. Annual, No. 318, & Historical Stat., Colonial Times to 1970 series H1135-43 & A6-8
• Slide 12:

  HOMICIDE MOTIVES

  Reasons for Murder in the United States

  • Arguments: 37.7%
  • Other Motives: 22.6%
  • Unknown: 16.5%
  • Robbery: 10.1%
  • Other felonies: 6.0%
  • Narcotics: 7.1
  Year 1990

  Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1992. Tab. 281. Based on Police Investigations.

• Slide 13:

  The WAR on Drugs --

  Drug Prohibition, like alcohol prohibition, is a DEADLY WAR.

  Our Constitution, the Rights it provides ...and all Americans are victims of this War!
• Slide 14:

  U.S. WAR CASUALTIES

  American War Deaths to 1991

  Deaths in War on Drugs are AIDS only.

  Deaths in thousands:
  • Revolution - 4.4
  • 1812 - 2.2
  • Civil - 364.8
  • Spanish-American - 2.4
  • WWI - 116.5
  • WWII - 405.3
  • Korean - 54.2
  • Vietnam - 58
  • Drug War - 119

  Sources: U.S. Dept of Defense. C.D.C. figures on AIDS deaths to 1992. Other causes of death from Drug War not included.

• Slide 15:

  U.S. WAR LOSSES

  American War Deaths compared to AIDS Risk from the War on Drugs by 2002.

  All Other Wars, Drug War

  Sources: U.S. Dept of Defense, C.D.C. figures on AIDS deaths to 1881, Hudson Inst. U.S. AIDS Projection to 2002.

• Slide 16:

  "Government is not the solution to the problem, the government is the problem!" -Ronald Reagan

  ...and it has created an extremely expensive and burdensome

  Problem

  for all Americans!
• Slide 17:

  DRUG WAR COSTS

  The Financial Costs ofthe War on Drugs Dwarfs the Federal Annual Deficit

  Source: Save our Liberties, 187 Acalanes Dr., #14, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086-5520. Note: Federal Deficit for 1993.
• Slide 18:

  THE DRUG DEFICIT

  Estimated Drug Profits Leaving the United States Exceeds America's Deficit of Payments

  Source: Save our Liberties, 187 Acalanes Dr., #14, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086-5520. Note: Federal Deficit of Payments for 1993. Capital laundered out of the country takes around two million jobs off the U.S. market.
• Slide 19:

  COST OF THE WAR ON DRUGS

  Annual Costs of the WAR ON DRUGS to the Year 2000

  Estimates by Save our Liberties, 187 Acalanes Dr., #14, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086-5520. Costs from 1981 to 2001 could exceed 7 TRILLION DOLLARS.
• Slide 20:

  FEDERAL DRUG ABUSE BUDGET DOLLAR

  Past Expenditures of U.S. Government for the WAR on DRUGS

  Source: President's Comm. on Organize Crime; Am. Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Traf. & Org. Crime. 1986. Pages 440-444. Today, the enforcement remains the overwhelmingly dominant cost in the Drug War consuming over two thirds of the Federal Drug War Budget.
• Slide 21:

  The War on Drugs

  has turned our legal system upside down...

  and changed "peace officers" into "legal looters." Our "Justice System" is rapidly becoming the biggest ORGANIZED CRIME PROBLEM in our Nation's history!

• Slide 22:

  PROPERTY SEIZURES

  Few People with Property Seized are ever charged or convicted of a Crime!

  Sources: DEA data reported by A. Schnieder and M. Flaherty, Pittsburg Press, in SF Examiner, 8/25/91, page 1.
• Slide 23:

  VALUE OF ASSET SEIZURES

  No effect on Big Time OPrganized Crime

  but Forfeitures Flaunts the Bill of Rights

  Sources: DEA data documented in report by A. Schnieder and M. Flaherty, Pittsburg Press, in SF Examiner, 8/25/91, page 1.
• Slide 24:

  TRENDS IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT

  Average Sentence Length in months

  Source: U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice. Statistics: Drugs and Crime Data. Nov. 1992.
• Slide 25:

  Violent criminals get out of prison

  to make room for non-violent drug offenders sentenced to mandatory minimums ...

  It's time to

  END DRUG PROHIBITION

  ...for the safety of our children and salvation of our Constitutional Rights.