03-03-2012, 10:41 AM
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This is coming from the guy who spearheaded the war on drugs.
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America has the highest incarceration rate in the world.[45] In 1971, different stops on drugs had been implemented for more than 50 years (for e.g. since 1914, 1937 etc.) with only a very small increase of inmates per 100 000 citizens. After 1980, the situation began to change. In 1994, it was reported that the "War on Drugs" resulted in the incarceration of one million Americans each year.[46] Of the related drug arrests, about 225,000 are for possession of cannabis, the fourth most common cause of arrest in the United States.[47]
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Reagan was able to pass the Anti-Drug Abuse Act through Congress. This legislation appropriated an additional $1.7 million to fund the War on Drugs. More importantly, it established 29 new, mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, a number that becomes gaudier when one considers that in the entire history of the country up until that point, the legal system had only seen 55 minimum sentences in total
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