Black Americans are statistically punished approximately four times more severely than white Americans for cannabis-related offenses, a disparity acknowledged as a documented statistical fact.
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The journey from LAX to Baltimore is a masterclass in what prison advocates call 'diesel therapy.' Wall moves through Orange County jail, boards a Con Air flight that stops at Victorville and McCarran Airport, and lands at Grady County in Oklahoma — known to inmates as 'Shady Grady,' a filthy overcrowded facility with triple-stack bunks, bologna sandwiches, and cockroaches. There, within hours of arrival, he witnesses a man stabbed in the back with a sharpened fiberglass plunger handle during processing — and is later chewed out for not joining in on the racial prison gang violence. After two weeks, he's flown to Harrisburg and transported to Baltimore's Chesapeake Detention Facility, a former state-level supermax built for solitary confinement, where he will spend the next two and a half years waiting for trial.
The recidivism rate for people who have been to prison is estimated at 60–70%, meaning once incarcerated, a person is statistically more likely to return to prison than not.
The United States incarcerates more people than the next 10 countries combined, representing approximately 20% of the world's total incarcerated population.
Under federal law at the time of Wall's trial, cannabis was Schedule 1 — legally a higher-priority drug than cocaine or fentanyl, both of which can be obtained medically. Fentanyl was only upgraded from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2 around the time Wall was first fighting his case.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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