Failed Drug War

Make of it what you will:

From 1987 to 1995 more drug arrests involved heroin or cocaine than other types of drugs. Since 1996 the number of arrests involving marijuana exceeded that for other types of drugs.
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Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States, annually.

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The Public opinion poll on the seriousness of the Drug problem is not in line with the Government it seems as shown here:

Date of poll		Drug abuse most serious problem
May 1989		27	%
July 1990		18
March 1991		11
March 1992		8
January 1993		6
January 1994		9
January 1995		6
May 1996		10
January 1997		17
April 1998		12
May 1999		5
March 2000		5
January 2001		7
March 2002		3
February 2003		2
June 2004		1

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 All of this, especially the drugs a pot seem outrageous.  Especially when you consider our president admits to smoking when he was young and made a point of telling us he had inhaled.