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MARIJUANA AND INCARCERATION

analysis of U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Demand Reduction Section May 2014 The Dangers and Consequences of Marijuana Abuse



analysis of MARIJUANA AND INCARCERATION: (0.75763 secs.)



MARIJUANA AND INCARCERATION

Federal marijuana investigations and prosecutions usually involve hundreds of pounds of marijuana. Few defendants are incarcerated in federal prison for simple possession of marijuana.

o In 2008, according to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), 25,337 people were sentenced in federal court for drug crimes under six offense categories. Marijuana accounted for 6,337 (25 percent). Looking even further, of the 6,337 people sentenced, only 99 people or 1.6 percent, were sentenced for "simple possession" of marijuana.193

o According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of state and federal prisoners published in October 2006, approximately 12.7 percent of state prisoners and 12.4 percent of federal prisoners were serving time for a marijuana-related offense. This is a decrease from 1997 when these figures were 12.9 percent and 18.9 percent respectively.194

o Between October 1, 2005 and September 30, 2006, there were 6,423 federal offenders sentenced for marijuana-related charges in the U.S. Courts. Approximately 95.9 percent of the cases involved trafficking.195

o In Fiscal Year 2006, there were 25,814 offenders sentenced in federal court on drug charges. Of those, only 1.6 percent (406 people) were sentenced for simple possession.196

o According to ONDCP, "Many inmates ultimately sentenced for marijuana and possession were initially charged with more serious crimes but were able to negotiate reduced charges or lighter sentences through plea agreements with prosecutors. Therefore the ...figure for simple possession defendants may give an inflated impression of the true numbers, since it also includes these inmates who pled down from more serious charges." 197 33

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o While illicit drugs are implicated in three-quarters of incarcerations (75.9 percent), few inmates are incarcerated for marijuana possession as their controlling or only offense. Inmates incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails for marijuana possession as the controlling offenses accounted for 1.1 percent of all inmates and 4.4 percent of those incarcerated for drug law violations. Those incarcerated for marijuana possession as their only offense accounted for .9 percent of all inmates and 2.9 percent those incarcerated for drug law violations.198 o Findings from the 2008 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System (ADAM II), which surveys drug use among booked male arrestees in ten major metropolitan areas across the country, shows the majority of arrestees in each city test positive for illicit drug use, with as many as 87 percent of arrestees testing positive for an illegal drug. Marijuana is the most commonly detected drug at the time of the arrest. In seven of the ten sites arrestees who are using marijuana are using it on the average of every other day for the past 30 days.199


summary: drug_related = 100%, drugwar_propaganda = 100%, incarceration = 100%

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prohibitionist hits:0 government drug warrior (prohibition_agency) hits:2 propaganda (drugwar_propaganda) hits:12 legalization hits:0 drug_reformer hits:0 reform_referenda hits:0 cannabis hits:14 stimulant hits:0 narcotic hits:0 hallucinogen hits:0

    prohibitionist     prohibition_agency     drugwar_propaganda     legalization     drug_reformer
    reform_referenda     cannabis     stimulant     narcotic     hallucinogen
                        
                        


incarceration/prison mentioned? yes .

propaganda analysis


explicit prohibition propaganda (explicit_propaganda) hits:0 hated group (propaganda_theme1) hits:0 madness, violence, illness (propaganda_theme2) hits:3 survival of society (propaganda_theme3) hits:1 gateway, use is abuse (propaganda_theme4) hits:8 children (propaganda_theme5) hits:0 demonize, war, epidemic (propaganda_theme6) hits:0 total prohibition (propaganda_theme7) hits:0 dissent opposed (propaganda_theme8) hits:0

EXP - explicit prohibition propaganda (explicit_propaganda) GRP - hated group (propaganda_theme1) MAD - madness, violence, illness (propaganda_theme2)
SOC - survival of society (propaganda_theme3) USE - gateway, use is abuse (propaganda_theme4) KID - children (propaganda_theme5)
WAR - demonize, war, epidemic (propaganda_theme6) TOT - total prohibition (propaganda_theme7) DIS - dissent opposed (propaganda_theme8)



asserted: $drug_related at 100% ($prohibition_agency $illegal_drugs)
asserted: $drugwar_propaganda at 100% ($propaganda_theme2 $propaganda_theme3 $propaganda_theme4)
asserted: $propaganda_theme2 at 100% ("drug crimes" "crimes"), 3 hits
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asserted: $drugs at 95% ($various_drugs)
asserted: $drug_law at 100% ("drug law"), 2 hits
asserted: $prohibition_agency at 100% ("prosecutors" $drug_propaganda_agency), 1 hits
asserted: $drug_propaganda_agency at 100% ("ONDCP"), 1 hits
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asserted: $intoxicant at 100% ($cannabis)
asserted: $cannabis at 100% ("MARIJUANA" "marijuana-related"), 14 hits
asserted: $various_drugs at 95% ("drug" "drugs"), 11 hits
asserted: $various_illegal_drugs at 100% ("drug law" "illicit drugs" "illicit drug" "illegal drug" "Drug Abuse" "drug charges"), 7 hits
asserted: $incarceration at 100% ("jails" "prison" "prisoners" "prisons" "INCARCERATION" "incarcerated" "incarcerations" "inmates"), 20 hits

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 drug of abuse implied / mentioned

drug related
[news] [concept]

prohibition agency illegal drugs  
drugwar_propaganda : a drug war propaganda event, campaign release, slogan, or themepropaganda

drugwar propaganda
[news] [concept]

propaganda theme2 propaganda theme3 propaganda theme4 Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate? (Bruce E Levine, 2012)
Classic Modern Drug Propaganda
Themes in Chemical Prohibition
Drug War Propaganda (kindle edition)
propaganda_theme2 : drug war propaganda theme: madness, violence, illness caused by drugsmadness, violence, illness

propaganda theme2
[news] [concept]

"drug crimes" "crimes"3Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2)
drugwarfacts.org/crime.htm
drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
Distortion 18: Cannabis and Mental Illness
propaganda_theme3 : drug war propaganda theme: survival of societysurvival of society

propaganda theme3 65%
[news] [concept]

"the country"1Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3)
The "Nation" as a Device To Create a Psychological Crowd
 use is abuse

use is abuse
[news] [concept]

"Drug Abuse" "drug use" "marijuana possession" "possession of marijuana" "Abuse"8Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4)
drugwarfacts.org/addictiv.htm
propaganda_theme4 : drug war propaganda theme: all use is abuse, gatewaygateway, use is abuse

propaganda theme4
[news] [concept]

use is abuse Use is Abuse, Gateway (propaganda theme 4)
 drug of abuse

illegal drugs
[news] [concept]

cannabis various illegal drugs  
 drugs 95%
[news] [concept]
various drugs  
 drug law
[news] [concept]
"drug law"2 
prohibition_agency : various drug prohibition and propaganda agencies and police; tax-supported entities dependent on continuing prohibitiongovernment drug warrior

prohibition agency
[news] [concept]

"prosecutors" drug propaganda agency1Drug Enforcement Administration
drugwarfacts.org/military.htm
trac.syr.edu/tracdea/
dare.procon.org
The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
 government drug propaganda agency

drug propaganda agency
[news] [concept]

"ONDCP"1mapinc.org/campaign.htm
 psychoactive plant

plants
[news] [concept]

cannabis erowid.org/plants/plants.shtml
 intoxicant
[news] [concept]
cannabis  
cannabis : cannabis (marijuana) product or usecannabis
[news] [concept]
"MARIJUANA" "marijuana-related"14Cannabis: Religious and Spiritual Uses
Cannabis-Driving Studies
MAPInc.org Cannabis Link DB
medicalmarijuanaprocon.org
cannabisnews.com/
cannabisculture.com
Schaffer Library: Marijuana
drugwarfacts.org/marijuan.htm
mapinc.org/pot.htm
U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests (2013)
 various drugs 95%
[news] [concept]
"drug" "drugs"11 
 various illegal drugs
[news] [concept]
"drug law" "illicit drugs" "illicit drug" "illegal drug" "Drug Abuse" "drug charges"7mapinc.org
drugwarfacts.org
DEA's Drugs of Abuse booklet
drugwarfacts.org/drugtest.htm
 incarceration
[news] [concept]
"jails" "prison" "prisoners" "prisons" "INCARCERATION" "incarcerated" "incarcerations" "inmates"20Prison Hell in America (Stephen Lendman, Oct. 2011)
Understanding the U.S. Torture State
this is what a police state looks like
Torture and the United States
drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons and...
aclu.org/combating-mass-incarcer...
november.org
mapinc.org/prison.htm
hermes-press.com/prisons drugs.htm
US Official Prison Policy: Encourage Men's Rape (2014)
Profit Driven Prison Industrial Complex (2012)
The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
Sing a Little Louder
Prison Rape Widely Ignored by Authorities
Push Back Against Drug War Profiteering with Jury Nullification

Sentence-By-Sentence Analysis

(1) MARIJUANA AND INCARCERATION Federal marijuana investigations and prosecutions usually involve hundreds of pounds of marijuana .

re: "INCARCERATION" - Simple possession of drugs at home already carries a harsher penalty then endangering lives through drunk driving, and in 1990 the governor of Alabama demanded that any marijuana user be imprisoned for one year. (Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey, pg.72)

(2) Few defendants are incarcerated in federal prison for simple possession of marijuana. o In 2008, according to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), 25,337 people were sentenced in federal court for drug crimes under six offense categories .

re: "drug crimes", "crimes" - Drugs, the prohibitionist explains, are a wicked bane on modern man. If not for the noble drug war (i.e. jailing drug users), exclaims the propagandist, then people will run amok, and violence, death, psychosis, and plague shall cover the land. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "possession of marijuana" - Prohibition propaganda claims that all use of any "drug" is abuse. (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "prison", "incarcerated" - In 1992 the federal minimum sentence for LSD possession was 10.1 years (first offense). Compare to the maximum sentences for the following first offenses: rape 7.2 years, kidnaping 5.2 years, theft of $80 million 5.2 years. (Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey, 1996, pg.73)

(4) Looking even further, of the 6,337 people sentenced, only 99 people or 1.6 percent, were sentenced for "simple possession" of marijuana.193 o According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of state and federal prisoners published in October 2006, approximately 12.7 percent of state prisoners and 12.4 percent of federal prisoners were serving time for a marijuana-related offense .

re: "prisoners" - "Torture is commonly used. It not just at Guantanamo and similar offshore hellholes. It happens across America in federal, state and local prisons where inmates are terrorized by dogs, shocked with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, harmed by stun guns, beaten, stripped naked, raped, and abused in other ways." (Stephen Lendman, 10/2011)

(8) Of those, only 1.6 percent (406 people) were sentenced for simple possession.196 o According to ONDCP, "Many inmates ultimately sentenced for marijuana and possession were initially charged with more serious crimes but were able to negotiate reduced charges or lighter sentences through plea agreements with prosecutors .

re: "crimes" - It is prohibition, claim prohibitionists, that saves people from drug crazed, whacked out, high flying drug users. (Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) ) re: "prosecutors" - "for other people, this would be wrong, but because I have the best interests of my followers at heart, it's ok for me to...." -- How Power Corrupts Leaders, Ronald E. Riggio

re: "inmates" - In 1991 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the reasonableness of mandatory life imprisonment for simple possession of drugs. Indeed, the law considers drug offenses to be worse than murder. (Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey, 1996, pg.72)

(9) Therefore the ...figure for simple possession defendants may give an inflated impression of the true numbers, since it also includes these inmates who pled down from more serious charges." 197 33 ....... o While illicit drugs are implicated in three-quarters of incarcerations (75.9 percent), few inmates are incarcerated for marijuana possession as their controlling or only offense .

re: "marijuana possession" - "This strategy equates the use and abuse of drugs and implies that it is impossible to use the particular drug or drugs in question without physical, mental, and moral deterioration." [W.White,1979] (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "incarcerations", "incarcerated", "inmates" - "Prison is hell everywhere. America is no different in, by far, the world's largest gulag. Inmates are treated worse than subhumans." (Stephen Lendman, 10/2011)

(10) Inmates incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails for marijuana possession as the controlling offenses accounted for 1.1 percent of all inmates and 4.4 percent of those incarcerated for drug law violations .

re: "marijuana possession" - Any use of an illegal drug is deemed to be "abuse," weasels the propaganda of prohibition. (After all - it is illegal!) (Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) ) re: "jails", "prisons", "incarcerated", "Inmates" - A drug offender serving a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence had an uncle who was murdered; the murderer served 7 1/2 years. (Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey, 1996, pgs.72-73)


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