Did you know....

Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs: $47+ billion

Number of arrests in 2018 in the U.S. for drug law violations: 1,654,282

Number of drug arrests that were for possession only: 1,429,299

Number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2018: 663,367

Number of those charged with marijuana law violations who were arrested for possession only: 608,775

Percentage of people arrested in 2017 for drug law violations who are Black: 27% (despite making up just 13.4% of the U.S. population)

Number of people in the U.S. incarcerated in 2016: 2.3 million – the highest incarceration rate in the world