1) Put half a million people in prison : $10 Billion a year

2) Spent billions annually for expanded law enforcement

3) Fomented violence and death (in gang turf wars, overdoses from uncontrolled drug potency & shared needles/AIDS)

4) Eroded civil rights (property can be confiscated from you BEFORE you are found guilty; search and wiretap authority has expanded.)

5) Enriched criminal organizations.

            Other Facts
6)Children of drug abusers are neglected, abused, and even abandoned.
  7)The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers.
8) Many soldiers returned from the Vietnam War with marijuana and heroin habits.
9)America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.
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