overall youth crime has plummeted by nearly 30 percent in California – to levels not seen since the Eisenhower administration.
Since the law passed in 2010, the rate of both high school dropouts and youth drug overdoses are down by 20 percent, according to a new research report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Non–marijuana drug arrests for California youth, meanwhile, are also down 23 percent – fully debunking the gateway theory.
overall youth crime has plummeted by nearly 30 percent in California – to levels not seen since the Eisenhower administration.
Since the law passed in 2010, the rate of both high school dropouts and youth drug overdoses are down by 20 percent, according to a new research report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Non–marijuana drug arrests for California youth, meanwhile, are also down 23 percent – fully debunking the gateway theory.
-(This statement I can only say that when I was younger, I wanted to experience all things in life.)-
In a year of record-low voter turnout, Prop 47 passed with 59 percent support, thanks in part to endorsements from nationally prominent Republicans like Rand Paul and Newt Gingrich. The new law is expected to affect 24,000 drug convictions a year. And the reduction in the ranks of the incarcerated will create savings, the state estimates, in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars annually.” Innovatively, Prop 47 captures those savings and steers them into community programs. “This is the first voter initiative to literally take money out of the prison budget and put it into prevention and treatment,
-(I don’t ever think it’s ever been about saving money with the war on drugs, Now they cannot hide the cost’s associated policing illegal drugs. The net in my opinion is the best thing that has happened to TV hypnotized citizens of all country’s, even though most still sit hypnotized infront of there TV, The people who help share information over the net are reaching a far wider group and influential groups of people)-
Holder, who will be leaving office upon the confirmation of his successor, views this as a legacy issue. “For far too long,” he said in a September speech focused on the harms created by the Drug War, “our system has perpetuated a destructive cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration that has trapped countless people and weakened entire communities – particularly communities of color. . . . We are bringing about a paradigm shift.”
-(Good man! his lucky his not dead)-
-(We all know the only people who hate drugs are the guys who never tried em, yeah they not for everybody but who has the right to tell you what you can and not do? We all know right from wrong unless you suffered a major blow to the head or minute IQ)-
-(This statement I can only say that when I was younger, I wanted to experience all things in life.)-
In a year of record-low voter turnout, Prop 47 passed with 59 percent support, thanks in part to endorsements from nationally prominent Republicans like Rand Paul and Newt Gingrich. The new law is expected to affect 24,000 drug convictions a year. And the reduction in the ranks of the incarcerated will create savings, the state estimates, in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars annually.” Innovatively, Prop 47 captures those savings and steers them into community programs. “This is the first voter initiative to literally take money out of the prison budget and put it into prevention and treatment,
-(I don’t ever think it’s ever been about saving money with the war on drugs, Now they cannot hide the cost’s associated policing illegal drugs. The net in my opinion is the best thing that has happened to TV hypnotized citizens of all country’s, even though most still sit hypnotized infront of there TV, The people who help share information over the net are reaching a far wider group and influential groups of people)-
Holder, who will be leaving office upon the confirmation of his successor, views this as a legacy issue. “For far too long,” he said in a September speech focused on the harms created by the Drug War, “our system has perpetuated a destructive cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration that has trapped countless people and weakened entire communities – particularly communities of color. . . . We are bringing about a paradigm shift.”
-(Good man! his lucky his not dead)-
-(We all know the only people who hate drugs are the guys who never tried em, yeah they not for everybody but who has the right to tell you what you can and not do? We all know right from wrong unless you suffered a major blow to the head or minute IQ)-
