Help me come up with anti-drug war facts to pass out on campus

[PBrady]

So tomorrow (4/20), our YAL chapter is going to be handing out 1/4 sheets in the main part of campus to raise awareness for how destructive the drug war is. Any suggestions/facts/figures that definitely need to make it on there?

[nayjevin]

I've heard it said that white people use drugs twice as much as black people, but black people are put in prison twice as much as white people... I doubt it is accurate but the underlying point (drug war results in disproportionate jailing along racial lines) is true.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1024&bih=487&q=disproportionate+prison+sentences+black&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Marc Emery endorsed Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?288205-Marc-Emery-gives-Ron-Paul-an-endorsement-from-prison


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7FshBjkS6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7FshBjkS6U

[Matt Collins]

Just search the IJ, Reason, IHS, MPP, Cato, Rockwell, and Mises sites. Or you could Google for Ron Paul's statements on the topic.

[acptulsa]

Amendments 18 and 21. Lots of good information by now on how and why Prohibition failed the first time. And anyone can see how the same thing is happening today.

[romeno182]

-making drugs illegal, you create black markets, and black markets are run by criminals. eventually the criminals get so powerful, that even the police is powerless against them.

-nicotin and alcohol are two of the most dangerous drugs, and they are perfectly legal.

-nicotin is far more addictive then marijuhana.

-make the comparison of putting alcohlics in prison. ask them "would you put an alcoholic in prison?".. the same with drug-addicts, they should be trated as sick people, and not put in prison..

-all the money it costs the state. use this statistic, that is very powerful: 90% of the drug problem is associated with its illegality!

[Kregisen]

Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron has come out with different estimates for the costs of the drug war....I've seen his estimates at about $13-16 billion, $50 billion, even $70 billion....there are so many variables to factor in I'm guessing the difference between $13 and $70 are court-related costs.

[doodle]

Don't know if this will suit for this purpose but I personally find graphics more compelling:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?287995-Man-funding-movie-quot-Atllas-Shrugged-quot-also-funded-Funding-The-Movement-To-Save-The-War&p=3211845&viewfull=1#post3211845