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Marijuana Laws Ruin Lives, Legalize Cannabis, Say US Activists
Of those arrested, 89 percent of those were charged with simple pot possession -- the highest annual total ever recorded and nearly three times the number of citizens busted 15 years ago.
As per figures released by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health less than 2 percent increase in pot users was recorded from '05 to '06. But pot arrests jumped more than five percent. Activists and blame it all on the “zeal” of enforcement officials.
The bottom line: Since 1990 over 10.4 million Americans -- predominantly young people under age 30 -- have been busted for pot. Thousands have been disenfranchised, tens of thousands have been unnecessarily sent to "drug treatment," hundreds of thousands have lost their eligibility for student aid, and perhaps an entire generation (or two) has been alienated to believe that the police are an instrument of their oppression rather than their protection. These are the tangible results of the government's stepped up war on pot -- results that go beyond the FBI's record numbers, and it's high time that politicians and the general public began taking notice.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is campaigning in a big way supporting “the right of adults to use marijuana responsibly, whether for medical or personal purposes,” it says.
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