Drug War Statistics
Drug War Statistics To Sum this up I’ve gathered some information not well information to show the damage does to our society the economic failure from of America’s “War on Drugs”:
There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009, 82 percent were for possession alone.
The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs.
One out of every 100 American adults is behind bars in jail or prison, and the U.S. houses nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners despite having less than five percent of the world’s total population.
In four years, more than 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to Mexico’s war against the cartels that control the illegal drug market.
The Department of Justice says that the illegal drug market in the U.S. is dominated by 900,000 criminally active gang members affiliated with 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities, and that Mexican drug cartels now directly control illegal drug markets in at least 230 American cities.
Al Qaida and nearly half of all U.S. State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations have ties to the illegal drug trade. For example, the Taliban and Afghan warlords collect nearly half a billion dollars a year from illicit drug farming, production and trafficking, while the FARC in Colombia finances its activities with $300 million a year in illegal drug sales.
According to the federal government, 23.5 million Americans are in need of substance abuse treatment, but only one in 10 receive it.
48 percent of U.S. high school students have used illegal drugs by graduation.
Teens say obtaining illegal marijuana is easier than buying legal, controlled and age-regulated beer.
National drug control spending on harsh enforcement strategies grew by 69.7 percent over the past nine years, while spending on treatment and prevention only
There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009, 82 percent were for possession alone.
The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs.
One out of every 100 American adults is behind bars in jail or prison, and the U.S. houses nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners despite having less than five percent of the world’s total population.
In four years, more than 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to Mexico’s war against the cartels that control the illegal drug market.
The Department of Justice says that the illegal drug market in the U.S. is dominated by 900,000 criminally active gang members affiliated with 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities, and that Mexican drug cartels now directly control illegal drug markets in at least 230 American cities.
Al Qaida and nearly half of all U.S. State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations have ties to the illegal drug trade. For example, the Taliban and Afghan warlords collect nearly half a billion dollars a year from illicit drug farming, production and trafficking, while the FARC in Colombia finances its activities with $300 million a year in illegal drug sales.
According to the federal government, 23.5 million Americans are in need of substance abuse treatment, but only one in 10 receive it.
48 percent of U.S. high school students have used illegal drugs by graduation.
Teens say obtaining illegal marijuana is easier than buying legal, controlled and age-regulated beer.
National drug control spending on harsh enforcement strategies grew by 69.7 percent over the past nine years, while spending on treatment and prevention only