2 The Many Faces of Jack Cole

3 DEA Briefing Book % $ 6.00 $ %

4 DEA Staffing and Appropriations FY Year Total Employees Special Agents Support Staff Budget ($ in Millions) 19732,8981,4701, ,1324,5614,5711,550 Employees-3 times as many Budget-20 times larger

Marijuana Arrests and Total Drug Arrests in the US Year Total Drug Arrests Total Marijuana Arrests Marijuana Trafficking/Sale Arrests Marijuana Possession Arrests ,579, ,497 84,271620, ,532, ,812 84, , ,559, ,885 84,191598, ,476, ,964 85,614503, ,089, ,850 66,460260, ,900401,98263,318338,664 Total Drug Arrests per year Tripled

6 Metro Section February , page 23 The New York Times Nancy Siesel/The New York Times Cocaine Seized in Industrial Machine Imported from Venezuela The police and Federal authorities recovered 4,800 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated street value of up to $350 million, and arrested four men unpacking the drugs at a warehouse in the Corona section of Queens. Police officers and agents from the United States Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration strained to load the drugs into a truck. 4,800 pounds of cocaine Street value of $350 million Not worthy of an article!

7 Drug seizures in 1994 New York Times, July 15, 1994, B3 Three tons of cocaine hidden in cargo at the Port of Newark Federal agents recovered five tons of cocaine in Houston in May, three tons in San Francisco in June and five more tons in El Paso in July.

8 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? “THIS SURVEY confirms that our drug-prevention efforts are working and that when we work together and push back, the drug problem gets smaller.” US Drug Czar John Walters Monitoring the Future 2002 An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

9 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? Between 1991 and 2002 marijuana use among students in all school gradesincreased. Between 1991 and 2002 marijuana use among students in all school grades increased.

10 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? 30 % increase for 12th graders

11 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? 65 % increase for 10th graders

12 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? 88 % increase for 8th graders

13 How Has Prohibition Changed Drug Use in US Schools? School children report it is easier to buy illegal drugs than it is to buy beer or cigarettes

14 International Trade in Illicit Drugs Annually generates: $400 billion

15 Alternative Policy Solution Remove the profit motive continuously enhanced for 30 years by the United States policy of a WAR ON DRUGS

16 End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs

17 Won’t legalization cause everyone to use drugs? 10th graders in Holland who have tried marijuana: 28 % 10 th graders in the U.S. who have tried marijuana: 41 %

18 Outcomes of Legalization 1.6 million less people arrested each year 69 Billion Dollars saved each year

19 Outcomes of Legalization Lower Institutionalized Racism in the Criminal Justice System

20 Federal Household Survey Whites constitute 72% of all drug users in the US Blacks constitute 15% of all drug users in the US But 37% of those arrested for drug violations are Black Over 42% of those in federal prisons for drug violations are black African-Americans comprise almost 60% of those in state prisons for drug felonies

21 Bureau of Justice Statistics Punishment is 100 times worse for Crack than for powder cocaine Disenfranchisement Over 10% of the total voting population of black men have lost their right to vote due to felony convictions. Black male born today has a one in four chance of serving time in prison Of convicted defendants 33% of whites received a prison sentence 33% of whites received a prison sentence 51% of African-Americans received prison sentences 51% of African-Americans received prison sentences In New York State prisons Nine in 10 of those serving mandatory sentences for drug offenses are black or Latino

22 End Prohibition 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Have the federal government produce those drugs

23 Outcomes of Government Production Quality controlled production for purityQuality controlled production for purity Standardized measurement and potencyStandardized measurement and potency End of overdosesEnd of overdoses

24 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free maintenance doses of drugs to any adult requesting them

25 Results of treating heroin addiction with heroin SwitzerlandandHolland

26 Results of treating heroin addiction with heroin Full-time Employment more than doubled, from 14% to 32% Crime was cut by 60% Cocaine use among the addicts plummeted from 35% to 5% Unstable housing situations dropped by nearly 2/3rds from 49 to 21% Homelessness dropped from 12 % to ZERO Drug-caused deaths dropped 34 % between 2001 & 2002 Unemployment was cut in half, from 44% to 22%

27 Outcomes of Free Governmental Distribution No profit motive for drug distributionNo profit motive for drug distribution No individuals selling drugsNo individuals selling drugs No crimes committed to obtain drugsNo crimes committed to obtain drugs No criminal association for drug usersNo criminal association for drug users No diseases passed by sharing needlesNo diseases passed by sharing needles Users able to stabilize their addictionsUsers able to stabilize their addictions

28 Outcomes of Legalization and free distribution No shootings of dealers by other dealersNo shootings of dealers by other dealers No kids caught in crossfireNo kids caught in crossfire No police killed fighting drug warNo police killed fighting drug war No one killed by police in the drug warNo one killed by police in the drug war No advertisement to further drug useNo advertisement to further drug use No one soliciting one more drug userNo one soliciting one more drug user

29 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Redirect money saved to programs that offer people hope for the future

30 Programs offering hope Rehabilitation Centers

31 Programs offering hope Guaranteed Minimums Housing - Health Care - Education - Job Training Employment Livable Wages

32 Results of offering people hope for the future Less need to use drugs Less drug addicts

33 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Create hope for the future 5. Redirect money saved to programs that offer true education about drugs

34 Does Education Work? % of the adult US population smoked tobacco 1998 Only 24% of the adult US population smoked tobacco

35 1. Legalize Drugs 2. Government production 3. Distribute free doses 4. Create hope for the future 5. Educate users and public

36 Albert Einstein on Prohibition The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. Albert Einstein

37 Prohibition - When will we learn? Members of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform pose for a photograph in 1932 (courtesy of the Hagly Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware). We are having to relearn the same lesson today that they learned 69 years ago.

38 Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Jack A. Cole Executive Director (781)

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40 Does Drugs or Drug Prohibition cause crime?

41 Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999 combined Justice System spent $146.6 Billion x 61 % for drug violations $89.4 Billion

42 Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999 average police cost per arrest $34,857 x 1.6 million arrests $55,771,200

43 Incarceration Rates Per 100,000 population in Western European nations At or below 100

44 Incarceration Rates Per 100,000 population in United States 699

45 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration Rates per 100,000 population White women 34

46 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration Rates per 100,000 population Hispanic women 60

47 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration rates Per 100,000 population Black women 205

48 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration rates Per 100,000 population White men 449

49 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration rates Per 100,000 population Hispanic Men 1,220

50 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2000 U.S. Incarceration rates Per 100,000 population Black Men 3,457