You guys are going to love this. I'm dead set on writing this now with the email I just received!!!!I just started this off with statistics on arrests for other drugs that have been proven harmful and addictive in comparison to steroids. The results are below and the email is great!!!
Preface
In 1969 President Richard Nixon uttered words that would ultimately affect the rest of the world for decades to come: “War on Drugs”. Since 1969 drug abuse has risen to considerably higher levels. The US Federal Government spent $19 billion dollars in 2003. That comes out to a rate of $600 per second. Since then the budget has been increased well over $1 billion dollars more. State and local governments have spent at least an additional $30 billion. Source: Jeffrey Miron, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Arrests for drug law violations in 2009 are highly expected to exceed the 1,841,182 arrests of 2007. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.8 million arrests, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2007. Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 17 seconds. Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Since December 31, 1995, the US Prison Population has grown an average of 43,266 inmates per year. About 25 percent are sentenced for drug law violations. Source: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Nearly 4,000 new HIV infections can be prevented before the year 2010 if the federal ban on needle exchange funding is lifted this year. That comes to be 10 cases everyday. Source: center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco From 1982-2007 arrests for heroin and cocaine have risen from 150,000 to well over 500,000. Arrests for Marijuana have risen from 500,000 to 850,000.
I emailed the US Department of Justice to get statistics of how many people are arrested for possession or manufacture of anabolic steroids each year to make a comparison to the statistics from above because I did not find them on their list of statistics on their website. They responded within 30 hours with a short email on the matter. “There is such a minuscule amount of arrests for anabolic steroids that we feel there is no need to report this matter on a yearly basis as it does not seem to pose a surreal threat.” I emailed them back to ask why so much emphasis is placed upon anabolic steroid laws, and I received no response back.
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