133,000 people behind bars in U.S. prisons and jails for drug possession – and 63,000 of these people are held pre-trial, which means they’re locked up simply because they’re too poor to post bail.

80 percent of those arrests are for simple drug possession.

More than a million people are arrested each year in the U.S. for drug possession,

Decriminalization benefits public safety and health.

Our retrograde federal administration is ramping up the war on drugs – despite widespread public support for ending it and instead focusing our limited resources on health-based approaches to drug addiction and overdose deaths.

Half of all adults in the U.S. have used an illegal drug at some point.

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