Please forward widely. Stop the feds' attack on medical marijuana.
"In the federal system, there are two levels of mandatory minimums, with each level doubling for defendants with prior convictions. The first tier requires a minimum sentence of imprisonment for five years (10 with a prior felony drug conviction), and the second tier requires a minimum of 10 years (20 with one prior felony drug conviction, and mandatory life with two such prior convictions). Of that, defendants can receive a reduction in the time they serve in prison of only 54 days per year as a reward for 'good behavior,' which means they must actually serve about 85% of their sentences."
-- David Risley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Illinois. "Mandatory Minimum Sentences. An Overview." From May 2000. Emphasis added.
http://www.drugwatch.org/Mandatory%20Minimum%20Sentences.htm
*Marijuana Arrests and Incarceration in the United States. Around 37,000 marijuana prisoners incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails in 1997. If the same percentage of inmates are marijuana prisoners, then in 2003 that means there would be around 44,000.
http://www.mpp.org/arrests/prisoners.html
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mandatory.htm
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U.S. Federal Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. |
| _________________First_tier.________Second_tier. ________________________________________________ _________________5_year_sentence________10_years Type_of_Drug.____without_parole._______No_parole ________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LSD______________1_gram._10_to_20_______10_grams _________________doses_if_carrier_______________ _________________weight_included._______________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marijuana________100_plants__________1000_plants _________________or_100_kilos._____or_1000_kilos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Crack_cocaine____5_grams._1_to_10_______50_grams _________________day_supply_for_________________ _________________heavy_user.____________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Powder_cocaine___500_grams_______________5_kilos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Heroin___________100_grams________________1_kilo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Methamphetamine__5_grams._3_to_10_______50_grams _________________day_supply_for_________________ _________________heavy_user.____________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PCP______________10_grams______________100_grams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The_Courier_New_font_lines_up_the_columns.______ |
| Use the free Adobe Reader to view the pdf file. 1 kilo is equal to 2.2 pounds. 1 kilo is 1 kilogram, which equals 1000 grams. 1 pound equals 454 grams. 1 ounce equals 28.35 grams. A gram roughly equals a single packet of sweetener. 1 gram of powder cocaine is turned into 0.89 grams of crack. Per capita use of crack is higher among whites than blacks. |
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"In the federal system, there are two levels of mandatory minimums, with each level doubling for defendants with prior convictions. The first tier requires a minimum sentence of imprisonment for five years (10 with a prior felony drug conviction), and the second tier requires a minimum of 10 years (20 with one prior felony drug conviction, and mandatory life with two such prior convictions). Of that, defendants can receive a reduction in the time they serve in prison of only 54 days per year as a reward for 'good behavior,' which means they must actually serve about 85% of their sentences."
-- David Risley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Illinois. "Mandatory Minimum Sentences. An Overview." From May 2000. Emphasis added.
http://www.drugwatch.org/Mandatory%20Minimum%20Sentences.htm
*Marijuana Arrests and Incarceration in the United States. Around 37,000 marijuana prisoners incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails in 1997. If the same percentage of inmates are marijuana prisoners, then in 2003 that means there would be around 44,000.
http://www.mpp.org/arrests/prisoners.html
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*Graph 3 below is one of many from a July 2000 report. Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States.
http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/poor/pp.html
*Majority of over 2 million U.S. prisoners are in due to drug war. Drug crimes, plus drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), plus drug trade crimes, plus drug-related parole violations, etc.. The USA has the world's highest incarceration rate. The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's 9 million prisoners. The Drug-War Industrial Complex. Statistics, references, links, and charts:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/majority.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/majority.htm
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U.S. Incarceration Rates Timeline. |
| _____________________________________________ The_RATE_is_inmates_per_100,000_population.__ _____________________________________________ __________________________________USA._Total_ _USA____Incarceration__Prisons____Midyear____ _______________RATE____and_jails__Population. _____________________________________________ ________*1925__119**____*1925_to_1977________ ________*1928__144______incarceration_rates__ ________*1932__165***___are_estimates._See___ ________*1934__164**____links_and_endnotes.__ ________*1939__206***________________________ ________*1945__147**____All_the_***peaks_and_ ________*1950__164***___**valleys_are_shown._ ________*1952__162**_________________________ ________*1961__179***___And_some_key_years.__ ________*1968__141**____1968._Nixon_elected._ ________*1969__146***___1969._Nixon_in_power. Nixon___*1971__143______1971._Nixon_declares_ ________*1972__140**__________a_War_on_Drugs. DEA_____*1973__144______1973._DEA_begins.____ ________*1974__153______1974._Nixon_resigns._ ________*1977__194___________________________ _________1978__203_______452,790__222,585,000 6_Ronald_1980__220_______501,886__227,726,463 6_Wilson_1981__241____ ___555,114__229,966,237 6_Reagan_1982__263_______610,767__232,187,835 and______1983__276_______645,713__234,307,207 Nancy____1984__288_______681,282__236,348,292 Reagan.__1985__312_______742,939__238,466,283 Holy_____1986__332_______799,171__240,650,755 War______1987__353_______856,906__242,803,533 on_Drugs_1988__388_______949,659__245,021,414 _________1989__435_____1,076,670__247,341,697 _________1990__458_____1,146,401__250,131,894 _________1991__480_____1,216,664__253,492,503 _________1992__503_____1,292,347__256,894,189 _________1993__524_____1,364,881__260,255,352 _________1994__558_____1,469,947__263,435,673 _________1995__595_____1,585,586__266,557,091 _________1996__610_____1,646,020__269,667,391 _________1997__639_____1,743,643__272,911,760 _________1998__658_____1,816,931__276,115,288 _________1999__678_____1,893,115__279,294,713 _________2000__686_____1,937,482__282,338,631 _________2001__688_____1,961,247__285,02 3,886 _________2002__707_____2,033,022__287,675,526 _________2003__718_____2,085,620__290,342,554 _____________________________________________ Add_in__________________+133,326___+4,285,059 133,326__2003__753_____2,218,946__294,627,613 Juvenile,______RATE____TOTAL______Population. U.S.___________per_____INMATES____U.S._and___ Territories,___100,000____________Territories etc..__________population___________4,285,059 _____________________________________________ The_Courier_New_font_lines_up_the_columns.___ |
| The last link above is a clickable U.S. map of state-by-state incarceration rates. The rates are for inmates per 100,000 state population. Note that no state in the USA has a rate less than 200. Bush was governor of Texas 1994-2000. His legacy: Louisiana (1025) and TEXAS (1014) (under Bush) had the highest rates in 1999. In 2001 (see the 4 links just above) it was Louisiana (1013) and TEXAS (966) that again had the highest incarceration rates with 1% of their populations imprisoned. 2001 Federal incarceration rate of 49 was NOT added in to those numbers. In the USA it costs around $25,000 average per year for each inmate. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): "An estimated 12 percent of all black males in their twenties were in jails or prisons last June 30 [2003], as were an estimated 3.7 percent of Hispanic males and 1.6 percent of white males in that age group. Sixty-eight percent of prison and jail inmates were members of racial or ethnic minority groups." BJS quote above is from the link below: |
| http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pjim03pr.htm __ |
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| http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t626.pdf __ |
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Brutality of the U.S. criminal justice system and prisons.
http://gallery.marihemp.com/prisons
U.S. laws, sentencing, police, courts, and prisons. U.S.-trained guards abroad, too. Brutality, rape, overcrowding, torture, medical neglect, deaths, hopelessness, solitary confinement, dungeons, long sentences, astronomical incarceration rate, etc..
See these CannabisCulture.com forum threads for more info, photos, articles, cartoons, etc.:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=959321
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1101939&fpart=13
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1107585&fpart=4
Prison rape:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/1647
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/1646
Mandatory minimum drug sentencing charts:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm
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