word > -----Original Message----- > From: Maureen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:23 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: this is why im voting for obama > > According to the Department of Justice, five percent of > inmates in prison are there because of simple possession. > > As of June, 2007 approximately 2,230,000 people were in > prison, which means roughly 115,000 people were in jail for > simple possession. > > At an average annual cost per inmate of 46 thousand dollars, > that's a per year cost of 5,290,000,000 dollars to > incarcerate people for simple possession - these are not drug > dealers, these are not people who committed other crimes - > these are people who merely had drugs in their possession. > > 5.3 billion dollars a year. This is in addition to the 40 > billion dollar a year budget for the War of Drugs. > > If legalizing, or at least decriminalizing, drugs isn't a > mainstream position, it should be. > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Robert Munn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first two of those positions are fringe positions, not > liberal ones. > > Legalizing drugs is borderline fringe, although partial > legalization > > of some drugs (e.g. marijuana) enjoys fairly broad support. > >
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