FACTS

DRUG-RELATED CRIME

It is incontrovertible that drug use and crime are related. Here are the US stats as one example:

#1

DRUG

found in the systems of those arrested for crimes was marijuana

$1

TRILLION

is the estimated economic impact on the US of illicit drug use in one year

18

PERCENT

of US federal prison inmates went to jail for a crime they committed in order to get drugs

EVERY

53

MINUTES

someone dies in an alcohol-related vehicle crash

63

PERCENT

of those arrested had at least one drug in their system at the time of arrest


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