The organization StoptheDrugWar.com tracks the number of Americans each year who are casualties of America's War on Drugs Peaceful Americans Who Use Intoxicants Not Currently Approved of by the Government, Who Might Break Into Your House and Kill You While Executing a Search Warrant if They Suspect You of Possessing or Distributing a Weed That Grows Naturally Everywhere and Was Smoked Regularly by President Obama.
That's basically what happened to Wendell Allen, 20, of New Orleans, who was a small-time distributor of marijuana and was shot and killed during a drug raid in March by a police officer who was indicted this week on manslaughter charges. Wendell Allen was unarmed and became this year's Drug War Casualty No. 15.
More recently, an Iowa City man was shot and killed during an undercover drug operation this week, bringing the total number of Drug War Killings this year to 45.
Related: Roughly 48% of the inmates in federal prisons (almost 93,000) are serving jail sentences for drug offenses.
HT: Jacob Sullum
Related: Roughly 48% of the inmates in federal prisons (almost 93,000) are serving jail sentences for drug offenses.
HT: Jacob Sullum
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