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To: Dane
In 1969, $65 million was spent by the Nixon administration on the drug war; in 1982 the Reagan administration spent $1.65 billion; and in 2000 the Clinton administration spent more than $17.9 billion.

Sources: U.S. Congress, Hearings on Federal Drug Enforcement before the Senate Committee on Investigations, 1975 and 1976 (1976); Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control Strategy, 1992: Budget Summary (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1992), p. 214; Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control Budget Executive Summary, Fiscal Year 2002 (Washington DC: Executive Office of the President, April 9, 2001), p. 2, Table 1.

(Note the above figure doesn't include the aid we sent to Columbia, Afgh. etc to fight the drug war there either)

In 2000, 46.5 percent of the 1,579,566 total arrests for drug abuse violations were for marijuana -- a total of 734,497. Of those, 646,042 people were arrested for possession alone. This is an increase over 1999, when a total of 704,812 Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses, of which 620,541 were for possession alone.

Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 2000 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 2001), pp. 215-216, Tables 29 and 4.1; Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 1999 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 2000), pp. 211-212; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States 1998 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1999), pp. 209-210; FBI, UCR for the US 1995 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1996), pp. 207-208; FBI, UCR for the US 1990 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1991), pp. 173-174; FBI, UCR for the US 1980 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1981), pp. 189-191.

Seems that Clinton spent the most and arrested the most people for drugs.

199 posted on 09/21/2002 12:30:50 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: rb22982
Seems that Clinton spent the most and arrested the most people for drugs.

Oh yeah Clinton is really against drugs, especially when he gets on MTV and says yeah he would try it again.

The Clintons will say anything to stay in power and to stay in power they had to be against drugs.

Are you seriously going to tell me that the are not pro-drug?

Anyway, you can post all the reports you want, but the real world tells me that the Clintons find nothing wrong with drug abuse.

201 posted on 09/21/2002 12:35:24 AM PDT by Dane
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