You are wrong to leave out the deaths. Overdoses, drug-related
murders, prison deaths, etc are the direct result of drug
prohibition. Without drug prohibition, the murder rate would
plummet down to a tiny fraction (maybe somewhere around the
infinitesimal terrorism fatality rate).
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Not near equal to deaths but look at the arrest and imprisonment
of
Americans on drugs and non victim crimes. In 2003 over 13.6
millin
people were arrested in the US, around 600,00 were serious
violent
crimes, 1.2 million lessor assualts, Around 2 million to 2.5
million
various property and fraud crimes so over 9 million arrests were
for
victimless crimes in 2003 alone, even if all of the 3.6 million
crimes listed under " other" were agressive acts that would still
leave over 5 million arrests for victimless crimes, over 1.6
million
for drugs, nearly 11,000 for gambling, 75,000 for prostitution,
612,000 for liquor law violation such as licence, making
moonshine
etc, 116,000 for carring or possesing weapons, 136,000 for curfew
violations. In 2204 there were nearly 1.5 million people in
prison.---
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