National History
This is when drugs initially surfaced in the United States in large quantities.
What are the 1800s?
In 1996, California became the first state to permit this form of marijuana use.
What is medicinal?
Prohibiting drug use and possession has been shown to increase criminal activity in these ways.
What is creating a Black Market, raising prices of illegal drugs, and giving rise to health issues through sharing needles.
Opponents of drug legalization have argued that, from a health and economic standpoint, legalizing drugs could lead to an increase in this.
This drug became very popular after the Civil War.
What is opium?
California ended felony charges for possession of drugs for personal use in this year.
What is 2014?
It is anticipated that allowing for commercial sales of drugs will reduce government costs while raising this.
What is tax revenue?*
Pointing to arrests for these types of crimes, opponents of drug legalization argue that we will not necessarily see a decrease in government spending as a result of legalizing drugs.
What are alcohol-related offenses?
This is when opium and cocaine abuse became so widespread that it was considered an epidemic.
What is the end of the 19th Century?
In 2016, this proposition legalized possession, transport, purchase, and consumption of up to one ounce of marijuana and eight grams of marijuana concentrate by adults over the age of twenty-one.
What is Proposition 64.
These are some of the ways drug legalization can cut costs and enhance the economy in California.
What are eliminating drug arrests and prosecutions, alleviating overcrowding in prisons, and creating jobs related to production and distribution?
Citing this type of drug misuse, those against legalization claim that the ability to regulate drugs will not necessarily prevent abuse.
What is prescription drug abuse?*
President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs in this year.
What is 1971?
This is the percentage of people in prison in the state of California for drug possession charges.
What is 8%?*
These are some of the potential health benefits accompanying drug legalization.
What is the ability to control dosage, purity, and safety of drugs?
After the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, the state saw a 48% increase in this.
What are marijuana-related traffic accidents?*
This is the number of individuals arrested for drug possession every year.
What is 1.25 million?
In 2012, black people comprised approximately 7% of California's population, but constituted nearly this percentage of inmates serving time for possession of Heroin or cocaine.
What is 50%?*
Based on California's experience legalizing marijuana, there is little evidence that legalizing all drugs would lead to this.
What is an increase in the number of people who use drugs regularly?
In Colorado, where marijuana has been legal since 2014, there has been a 63% increase in this.
What is reported use of marijuana by adults?*