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To supplement Chapter 6 Freedmen’s Hospital, US Prison population quintupled from 503,586 detainees (220 per 100,000) in 1980 to a high of 2,307,504 (755 per 100,000) in 2008 before quietly going down to 2,217,947 (693 per 100,000) in 2014, to create an all-volunteer jury, to set an arbitrary legal limit of 250 detainees per 100,000 residents, to prevent recidivism 100% of the time with free post-conviction Bachelor degrees for felons who don't pay their student loans, more than 300 economists and 600 churches petitioned the White House to legalize marijuana and reduce the deficit by $14 billion with a force reduction (actually $12.9 billion justice deficit reduction + $6 billion state department conversion to international assistance = $18.9 billion), the penalty for piracy is the abolition of the Judiciary US Sentencing Commission, Justice Department FBI, DEA, (ATF), OJP Community Policing, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, US Marshall's Drug and Crime Task Force, and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), to reduce the federal budget deficit, and conversion of the State Department International Narcotic Control and Law Enforcement, International Military Education and Training, Foreign Military Finance, and War Crime Tribunal funding, including the residuals, to legitimate international assistance, to change the name of the Justice Department Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to Bureau for Firearms and Explosives (FE) and legislate them a share of the federal tax revenues generated by sales of firearms and ammunition and fees for criminal background checks based upon 2.5% annual growth, to legalize marijuana, to change the name of the Treasury Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau (ATTTB) to Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana (ATM), and to change the name of the Court of International Trade of the United States (COITUS) to Customs Court (CC) under the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956), to amend federal torture statute to comply with Arts. 2, 4 and 14 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984 by repealing the phrase “outside the United States” from 18USC(113C) §2340A(a) and Exclusive Remedies at 18USC(113C)§2340B amended so: (1) The legal system shall ensure that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. In the event of the death of the victim as a result of an act of torture, their dependents shall be entitled to compensation. (2) Nothing in this article shall affect any right of the victim or other persons to compensation which may exist under national law. The US should ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2003) to establish a system of regular visits to places where people are deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Be the Democratic and Republican (DR) two party system Abolished

1^st Draft 2004 & 2005, 2^nd 31 January 2006, 3^rd 30 January 2007, 4^th 7 August 2007, 5^th 31 January 2008, 6^th 25 January 2009, 7^th 16 August 2011, 8^th MLK day 21 January 2013, 9^th 9 February 2014, 10^th 9 February 2015, 11^th 1 August 2016

1.This Act replaces the vacated sections of Freedmen’s Hospital 24USC(6)§261-270.  Forerunner of the Howard University Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital served the black community in the District of Columbia for more than a century. First established in 1862 on the grounds of the Camp Barker, 13th and R Streets, NW, Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum cared for freed, disabled, and aged blacks.  In 1863, the Hospital & Asylum was placed under Dr. Alexander Augusta (1825-1890), the first African-American to head a hospital. After the Civil War, it became the teaching hospital of Howard University Medical School, established in 1868, while remaining under federal control.  At the time of the American Revolution, the colonies restricted jury duty to white male property holders. No African-American served on any trial jury in the United States, North or South, until 1860 during a criminal trial in Worcester, Massachusetts. Women were ineligible for jury service in every state until 1898, when Utah allowed them to be jurors. Up until 1968, federal jury selection in the United States openly worked to limit jury service to supposedly elite individuals recommended by community leaders. That year, Congress officially abandoned the “blue-ribbon” jury in favor of the “cross section of the population” jury for the federal system. In 1978 employment protection was legislated. An All-Volunteer Jury system would eliminate or dramatically reduce the need for people to be excused from work to perform jury duty. In cases involving violent malum in se (inherently bad crimes, such as murder, rape and assault, jurors should consider the case strictly on the evidence presented, and if they believe the accused person is guilty, they should so vote. In cases involving non-violent, malum prohibitum (legally proscribed) offenses, including “victimless” crimes such as narcotics possession, there should be presumption in favor of nullification. Finally, for nonviolent, malum in se crimes, such as theft or perjury, there need be no presumption in favor of nullification, but it ought to be an option the juror considers. Jury duty should be an all-volunteer service sustained by Federal Work-Study.

US Detainee Population and Rate 1980-2014

Year	Detainees total	Detainee Population Rate
1980	503,586	220
1985	744,208	311
1990	1,148,702	457
1995	1,585,586	592
2000	1,937,482	683
2002	2,033,022	703
2004	2,135,335	725
2006	2,258,792	752
2008	2,307,504	755
2010	2,270,142	731
2012	2,228,424	707
2014	2,217 947	693

Source: World Prison List 2016

2. US Prison population quintupled from 503,586 detainees (220 per 100,000) in 1980 to a high of 2,307,504 (755 per 100,000) in 2008 before quietly going down to 2,217,947 (693 per 100,000) in 2014. A considerable amount of the increase is the result of the sentencing for drug crimes. From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49% of total prison population growth. Mid-year 2014 there were 744,592 people detained in local jails, and 1,473,355 in state or federal prisons at year-end. The prison population rate was 693 detainees per 100,000 residents at year-end 2014 based on an estimated national population of 320.1 million at end of 2014. In 2013 20.4% of people behind bars were pre-trial detainees 9.3% were female, 0.3% were juveniles, 5.5% were foreign prisoners. There are estimated to be a total of 4,575 penal institutions - 3,283 local jails at 2006, 1,190 state confinement facilities at 2005, 102 federal confinement facilities at 2005. The official capacity of the penal system was 2,157,769 with an occupancy level of 102.7% (2013). At yearend 2014, an estimated 4,708,100 adults were under community supervision down by about 45,300 offenders from yearend 2013. Approximately 1 in 52 adults in the United States was under community supervision at yearend 2014. Between yearend 2013 and 2014, the adult probation population declined by about 46,500 offenders (down 1.2%), falling to an estimated 3,864,100 offenders at year end 2014. Entries onto probation decreased about 1.3% during 2014, and exits declined about 1.0% to an estimated 2,130,700. The adult parole population increased by about 1,600 offenders (up 0.2%) between yearend 2013 and 2014, to an estimated 856,900 offenders at yearend 2014. Both entries to and exits from parole decreased about 1.5% in 2014.

State by State Detention 1999, 2005, 2013

Jurisdiction	1999 In prison or jail	1999 rate per 100,000 of all ages	2005 In prison or jail	2005 rate per 100,000 of all ages	2013 In prison or jail	2013 rate per 100,000 adults	2013 rate per 100,000 of all ages
State	1,714,931	666	2,007,434	679	2,012,400	830	636
Federal	173,059	58	179,220	58	215,100	90	68
U.S. total	1,887,990	724	2,193,798	737	2,227,500	910	704
Alabama	33,157	757	40,561	890	46,000	1,230	951
Alaska	2,837	459	4,678	705	5,100	940	691
Arizona	36,412	761	47,974	808	55,200	1,090	831
Arkansas	15,022	588	18,693	673	22,800	1,010	770
California	239,206	721	246,317	682	218,800	750	569
Colorado	21,043	520	33,955	728	32,100	790	608
Connecticut	16,776	511	19,087	544	17,600	620	488
Delaware	5,958	792	6,916	820	7,000	960	756
District of Columbia	8,226	1,594	3,552	645	2,400	450	369
Florida	119,679	790	148,521	835	154,500	990	788
Georgia	74,500	956	92,647	1,021	91,600	1,220	916
Hawaii	3,479	291	5,705	447	5,600	510	397
Idaho	6,634	531	11,206	784	10,200	860	632
Illinois	61,235	506	64,735	507	69,300	700	537
Indiana	30,025	506	39,959	637	45,400	910	690
Iowa	10,229	356	12,215	412	12,700	530	410
Kansas	12,864	484	15,972	582	16,600	760	573
Kentucky	21,651	546	30,034	720	32,100	950	729
Louisiana	44,934	1,025	51,458	1,138	50,100	1,420	1,082
Maine	2,745	220	3,608	273	3,800	350	285
Maryland	33,650	650	35,601	636	32,700	710	550
Massachusetts	21,796	353	22,778	356	21,400	400	318
Michigan	61,882	628	67,132	663	60,200	790	608
Minnesota	10,765	226	15,422	300	15,700	380	289
Mississippi	18,416	664	27,902	955	28,800	1,270	962
Missouri	32,300	591	41,461	715	44,500	950	736
Montana	3,998	453	4,923	526	6,000	760	591
Nebraska	5,740	344	7,406	421	8,500	600	454
Nevada	14,057	774	18,265	756	19,900	930	712
New Hampshire	3,830	320	4,184	319	4,800	460	362
New Jersey	43,777	536	46,411	532	37,600	540	421
New Mexico	10,330	590	15,081	782	15,500	980	742
New York	104,341	574	92,769	482	81,400	530	413
North Carolina	43,243	564	53,854	620	55,300	730	561
North Dakota	1,520	239	2,288	359	2,700	470	373
Ohio	63,444	565	65,123	559	69,800	780	603
Oklahoma	27,926	825	32,593	919	37,900	1,300	983
Oregon	15,425	464	19,318	531	22,900	740	582
Pennsylvania	63,490	529	75,507	607	85,500	850	668
Rhode Island	3,176	321	3,364	313	3,400	400	322
South Carolina	30,000	772	35,298	830	32,600	880	683
South Dakota	3,581	485	4,827	622	5,300	820	626
Tennessee	35,884	655	43,678	732	48,100	960	740
Texas	204,110	1,014	223,195	976	221,800	1,130	836
Utah	9,239	433	11,514	466	12,500	620	430
Vermont	1,205	203	1,975	317	2,100	410	335
Virginia	48,828	713	57,444	759	58,800	910	710
Washington	24,849	431	29,225	465	29,700	550	425
West Virginia	5,496	304	8,043	443	9,700	660	523
Wisconsin	27,218	519	36,154	653	34,800	780	605
Wyoming	2,338	485	3,515	690	3,800	840	651

 Source: World Prison Brief 2000 & 2005 Wikipedia 2013

3. State by State detention statistics were compiled by the International Centre for Prison Studies in 1999 and again in 2005. 2013 state by state statistics are from wikipedia. In 1999 Washington DC, with 8,226 detainees and a population of about 600,000, had the highest rate of incarceration in the world of 1,594 detainees per 100,000 residents. By 2005 that rate is reported to have been reduced to 3,553 detainees (645 per 100,000 residents) and in 2014 to have gone down to 2,040 detainees (369 per 100,000 residents) There appears to have been a political hack by the author of un-congressional Bush v. Gore (2000) to make it appear that Washington DC and Texas had reduced their incarceration rate between 1999 and 2005 although reductions did not begin until 2009 with some increased accountability for 'federal immigration offenders' that only partially explains the reductions. Nonetheless, the District of Columbia and Texas seem to be making an effort to reduce their penal populations to within the legal limit of 250 detainees per 100,000 or national norm of less than 500 detainees per 100,000. The penal population in the state of Louisiana, with the arbitrary detention of Hurricane Katrina Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin in 2014 as an example, is reported to have increased from 1995 to 2005 and to have decreased from 2005 to 2013. In 1999 Louisiana held 44,934 detainees (1,025 per 100,000), in 2005 51,458 detainees (1,138 per 100,000), and in 2014 50,100 detainees (1,082 per 100,000 residents of all ages) the last remaining state or territory with a penal population over 1,000 detainees per 100,000 residents of all ages. 1. Since 2010 most states have seen a reduction in their penal population or at least in their rate of incarceration per 100,000 residents. Vermont and few other state known to have made deals with Democrats slightly increased 2005-2013 including Illinois with their Blagojevich budget. It is hoped that these reductions will be continued and accelerated for non-violent offenders serving time in state and federal prison, particularly the non-violent drug and immigration offenders. However, figures pertaining to the rate per 100,000 may be low as the result of not fully taking into account the reductions to the general population that were made by the unprecedented deportation proceedings to remove foreign prisoners and deter unlawful entry that may have resulted in most or all of the statistical reduction in incarceration 2009-2016. Care must be taken in the new administration to safely sustain reductions in federal and state penal population and accelerate release for populations of arbitrary non-violent offenders.

4. Deaths in detention. State prison inmates, particularly blacks, are living longer on average than people on the outside. Inmates in state prisons are dying at an average yearly rate of 250 per 100,000, according to the latest figures reported to the Justice Department by state prison officials. By comparison, the overall population of people between age 15 and 64 is dying at a rate of 308 per 100,000, a year. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 12,129 state prisoners died between 2001 through 2004. For black inmates, the rate of dying was 57 percent lower than among the overall black population - 206 versus 484. But white and Hispanic prisoners both had death rates slightly above their counterparts in the overall population. The death rate among men was 72 percent higher than among women. Nearly one-quarter of the women who died had breast, ovarian, cervical or uterine cancer. Eight percent were murdered or killed themselves, 2 percent died of alcohol, drugs or accidental injuries, and 1 percent of the deaths could not be explained. The rest of the deaths - 89 percent - were due to medical reasons. Of those, two-thirds of inmates had the medical problem they died of before they were admitted to prison. Medical problems that were most common among both men and women in state prisons were heart disease, lung and liver cancer, liver diseases and AIDS-related causes. Four percent of the men who died had prostate or testicular cancer. Eighty-nine percent of these inmates had gotten X-rays, MRI exams, blood tests and other diagnostic work, state prison officials told the bureau. State prison officials reported that 94 percent of their inmates who died from an illness had been evaluated by a medical professional for that illness, and 93 percent got medication for it. More than half the inmates 65 or older who died in state prisons were at least 55 when they were admitted to prison.

Executions in the United States by State 1976-2016

State	Total Executions	Executions in 2016	Executions in 2015
	1437	15	28
Texas	537	6	13
Oklahoma	112		1
Virginia	111		1
Florida	92	1	2
Missouri	87	1	6
Georgia	66	6	5
Alabama	57	1
Ohio	53
North Carolina	43
South Carolina	43
Arizona	37
Louisiana	28
Arkansas	27
Mississippi	21
Indiana	20
Delaware	16
California	13
Illinois	12
Nevada	12
Utah	7
Tennessee	6
Maryland	5
Washington	5
Nebraska	3
Montana	3
Pennsylvania	3
U. S. Federal Gov't	3
Kentucky	3
Idaho	3
South Dakota	3
Oregon	2
Connecticut	1
New Mexico	1
Colorado	1
Wyoming	1

Source: Death Penalty Information Center July 31, 2016

5. The death penalty was abolished by the Supreme Court of the United States in Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972) when it was ruled that the then existing laws governing the use of capital punishment in the USA were unconstitutional. This decision however failed to sway the legislature and the deviant practice was begun again in 1976 and must again be abolished. The number of prisoners on death row has dramatically increased since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978 from 134 to 3,593 in 2001 when 71 people were executed. In 2003 65 inmates were executed, 6 fewer than in 2002. At yearend 2003, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,374 prisoners under sentence of death, 188 fewer than at yearend 2002. Of those under sentence of death, 56% were white 42% were black, and 2% were of other races. Forty-seven women were under sentence of death in 2003, up from 38 in 1993. There is a worldwide trend toward ending the death penalty; during 2004, five countries – Bhutan, Greece, Samoa, Senegal and Turkey abolished it for all crimes. Several countries while retaining the death penalty in law, observed moratoria on executions, including Tajikstan, Kyrgystan, Malawi and South Korea. China accounted for the majority of executions worldwide. The true frequency of the death penalty is however impossible to track because many of the sentences are carried out secretly. During 2004, more than 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries, including at least 3,400 in China. Additionally, more than 7,000 people were sentenced to death in 64 countries. Iran has the second highest number of executions, at least 159, followed by Vietnam with 64. The United States ranked fourth on the list with 59. Only seven countries since 1990 are known to have executed prisoners who were under 18 years old at the time of the crime - Congo (Democratic Republic), Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, USA and Yemen. The country which carried out the greatest number of known executions of child offenders was the USA (15 since 1990). In adoption of Art. 6(5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966 the executions of juvenile offenders were abolished in Roper v. Simmons No. 03-633 Argued October 13, 2004--Decided March 1, 2005.

6. Sanchez-Lammas v. Oregon (2006) reported the executions of prisoners who the International Court of Justice had protected by name in Avena and other Mexican National v. USA Judgment No. 128 on March 31, 2004 after the execution of Lagrand Brothers v. USA Judgment No. 104 on June 27, 2001. Art. 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 16 December 1966 states. 1. Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life. 2. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to the provisions of the present Covenant and to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948. 3. When deprivation of life constitutes the crime of genocide, it is understood that nothing in this article shall authorize any State Party to the present Covenant to derogate in any way from any obligation assumed under the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 4. Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence. Amnesty, pardon or commutation of the sentence of death may be granted in all cases. 5. Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age and shall not be carried out on pregnant women. 6. Nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant. The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty of 15 December 1989 holds States Parties to Believe that abolition of the death penalty contributes to enhancement of human dignity and progressive development of human rights.

7. The United States must amend federal torture statute to comply with Arts. 2 and 4 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984 by repealing the phrase “outside the United States” from 18USC(113C) §2340A(a) since it was hacked in 2009 and Exclusive Remedies at 18USC(113C)§2340B to fulfill Art. 14 of the Convention so: (1) The legal system shall ensure that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. In the event of the death of the victim as a result of an act of torture, their dependents shall be entitled to compensation. (2) Nothing in this article shall affect any right of the victim or other persons to compensation which may exist under national law. It is imperative that the United States ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 4 February 2003 to establish a system of regular visits undertaken by independent international and national bodies to places where people are deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Blakely v. Washington No. 02-1632 of June 24, 2004 when the Supreme Court eliminated sentencing guidelines schemes and, 20 years of sentencing reform. Sentences imposed under such guidelines in cases currently pending on direct appeal, or in cold habeas petitions, are in jeopardy. In both legislative and litigate practice Criminal sentences must be adjusted downward rather upward, mandatory minimum schemes eliminated and acquittals the norm for most crimes where there are significant mitigating factors. In 2009 the state prison population declined for the first time since 1973 as the result of Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor of California, et al  v. Marciana & Plata et al No. 09–1233 (2011) which upheld a three judge panel in California who ordered the largest release of prisoners in history under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 18USCII(229)(C)§3626. 40,000 prisoners were released and qualified the mentally and physically disabled parolees for Eligibility for SSI Benefits in Sec. 1611 of Title XVI of the Social Security Act 42USC(7)XVI§1382 (E)(1)(A) and Martinez et al v. Astrue No. Cal. No 08-CV-48735-CW  of August 11, 2009.

8. In 2002, 2,000,000 people were incarcerated in Federal or State prisons or in local jails. Nearly 650,000 people are released from incarceration to communities each year. There are over 3,200 jails throughout the United States, the vast majority of which are operated by county governments. Each year, these jails will release in excess of 10,000,000 arrestees, 3.3% of the population, back into the community. The Second Chance Act of 2005 HR1704, did not pass, is however the closest the Congress has come to defending liberty against the inexorable increase in incarceration since the 1970s. Nearly two thirds of released State prisoners are expected to be rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years after release. Community corrections programs supervised by probation and parole officers have been touted as the best method for controlling recidivism. Studies have shown that from 15 percent to 27 percent of prisoners expect to go to homeless shelters upon release from prison. The National Institute of Justice has found that after one year of release, up to 60 percent of former inmates are not employed. Over one-third of all jail inmates have some physical or mental disability and 25 percent of jail inmates have been treated at some time for a mental or emotional problem. A college level of education may however be a more effective philosophy. According to the National Institute of Literacy, 70 percent of all prisoners function at the two lowest literacy levels. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that 27 percent of Federal inmates, 40 percent of State inmates and 47 percent of local jail inmates have never completed high school or its equivalent. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that less educated inmates are more likely to be recidivists. Only 1 in 4 local jails offer basic adult education programs. Participation in State correctional education programs lowers the likelihood of re-incarceration by 19 percent, according to a recent United States Department of Education study. A Federal Bureau of Prisons study found a 33 percent drop in recidivism among federal prisoners who participated in vocational and apprenticeship training. Several state studies, reported by a private source, have shown that people who earn a Bachelor degree in prison are 100% free of recidivism. In other words, it is essential that people who are convicted of a felony receive a post-conviction Bachelor degree to be 100% free of recidivism. Recidivism is when a person is re-incarcerated. The rate of recidivism in federal correctional programs is reported to be only 9%. In state correctional programs however recidivism is reported to run about 66%. Two-thirds of offenders who are released from prison are re-incarcerated within 3 years. With a vocational certificate the risk of re-incarceration goes down to 50%. With an Associates degree the risk goes down to about 25%. Several state studies have confirmed that no one who earned a Bachelor degree after being convicted of a felony and serving time in prison ever recidivated. The concept is valid. Justice is not sufficient to reform an offender, every offender owes the community a Bachelor degree.

9. Microsoft has been unconstitutionally degraded by Justice Department sabotage of what they call an “abusive monopoly” and Bill Gate's retirement. Microsoft belongs in Congress not prominently displayed in the Justice Department website. Microsoft must restore access to sanderstony@live.com. Not to presume Constitutional drafting is less anonymous than Code at the Democratic National Convention, it has been removed from the Annotated Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. For a while it will remain prominently displayed on the website homepage and news desk for authentification purposes. Microsoft email is free and it is their only product that hasn't before malfunctioned. Microsoft Office is in a second free year because it ruins .doc files, but it is the only word processor to publish .htm. The penalty for piracy is the abolition of the Judiciary US Sentencing Commission, Justice Department FBI, DEA, (ATF), OJP Community Policing, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, US Marshall's Drug and Crime Task Force, and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), to reduce the federal budget deficit under the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926, and conversion of the State Department International Narcotic Control and Law Enforcement, International Military Education and Training, Foreign Military Finance, and War Crime Tribunal funding, including the residuals, under the Arms Export Control Act to legitimate international assistance. This includes all foreign military finance to Israel all $3.1 billion should be paid to the Palestine Supreme Court to settle UN Compensation Commission rates for casualty, injury and property damage FY 2017. 300 economists and 600 churches petitioned the White House to legalize marijuana and $14 billion deficit reduction (actually $12.9 billion + $6 billion state department = $18.9 billion $12.9 billion deficit reduction + $6 billion conversion of international security assistance to official development assistance). Israel may wish for the US to construct and occupy a $50 million US military base in Israel. Art. II Sec. 2 Clause 3 The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Art. I Sec. 8 Clause 10 of the United States Constitution gives to Congress the power to define and punish Piracies, mostly in violation of Art. 9 or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that states, “No arbitrary arrest, detention or exile”. Federal police bribery of state and local law enforcement must cease FY2017 or FY18. The Justice Department Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) needs to change is name to Bureau for Firearms and Explosives (FE) and legislate FE a share of the federal tax revenues generated by the sale of firearms and ammunition and fees for criminal background checks based upon 2.5% annual growth from current spending.

20 State and DC have enacted laws to legalize marijuana 2016

State	Year Passed	Passage	Fee	Possession Limit	Accepts other State Cards
Alaska	2014	Measure 2 (58%)	N/a	1 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)	N/a
Arizona	2010	Proposition 203 (50.13%)	$150/$75	2.5 oz usable; 0-12 plants	Yes
California	1996	Proposition 215 (56%)	$66/$33	8 oz usable; 6 mature or 12 immature plants	No
Colorado	2000	Ballot Amendment 64	N/a	1 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)	No
Connecticut	2012	House Bill 5389 (96-51 House, 21-13 Senate)		One-month supply (exact amount to be determined)	No
District of Columbia	2010	Amendment Act B18-622 (13-0 vote)		2 oz dried; limits on other forms to be determined
Delaware	2011	Senate Bill 17 (27-14 House, 17-4 Senate)		6 oz. usable	Yes
Hawaii	2000	Senate Bill 862 (32-18 House; 13-12 Senate)	$25	3 oz usable; 7 plants (3 mature, 4 immature)	No
Illinois	2014			Medical use only
Maine	1999	Ballot Question 2 (61%)	$100/$75	2.5 oz usable; 6 plants	Yes
Maryland	2014	SB 364	N/a	Less than 10g legal, commercial licensing	N/A
Massachusetts	2012	Question 2 (63%)		Les than 1 oz. legal
Michigan	2008	Proposal 1 (63%)	$100/$25	2.5 oz usable; 12 plants	Yes
Montana	2004	Initiative 148 (62%)	$25/$10	1 oz usable; 4 plants (mature); 12 seedlings	No
Nevada	2000	Ballot Question 9 (65%)	$200+fees	1 oz usable; 7 plants (3 mature, 4 immature)	No
New Jersey	2010	Senate Bill 119 (48-14 House; 25-13 Senate)	$200/$20	2 oz usable	No
New Mexico	2007	Senate Bill 523 (36-31 House; 32-3 Senate)	$0	6 oz usable; 16 plants (4 mature, 12 immature)	No
Oregon	2015	Ballot Measure 91 (55%)	n/a	8 oz usable at home 1 oz out; 24 plants (6 mature, 18 immature)	No
Rhode Island	2006	Senate Bill 0710 (52-10 House; 33-1 Senate)	$75/$10	2.5 oz usable; 12 plants	Yes
Vermont	2004	Senate Bill 76 (22-7) HB 645 (82-59)	$50	2 oz usable; 9 plants (2 mature, 7 immature)	No
Washington	1998	Initiative 692 (59%)		24 oz usable; 15 plants	No

Source: Wikipedia

10. The Treasury Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau (ATTTB) should legalize marijuana and change its name to Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana (ATM) under the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery signed in Geneva on 7 September 1956. California was the first state, in 1996, to pass a medical marijuana initiative with 55.6% to 44.4% of the vote. In Washington DC Medical Marijuana was legalized as Initiative 59 and passed with 69% in favor and 31% opposed in November 1998. Alaska Measure 8 passed 57.75% to 43.25% in 1998 legalizing marijuana for use and up to 6 plants of cultivation with a recommendation from a doctor and a receipt proving that the recommendation had been sent with ID to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for a license. Washington State Initiative 698 passed 58.76% to 41.34% in 1998. Oregon Measure 67 passed 54% to 46% in 1998 by 1999 over 200 people had paid $150 to get a permit. Arizona Proposition 300 failed 43% to 57% successfully ruling that Arizona doctors did not need to adhere to federal standards to prescribe Schedule I narcotics and hallucinogens. 61% to 39% of the voters in Maine said yes to Question 2 legalizing Medical Marijuana in November 1999 making Maine 8th state to do so. On Nov. 2 2005 Denver, Colorado a measure passed with 54% of the vote, with 46% of voters opposing the legalized possession of up to an ounce of marijuana. Led by the Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Nevada, where the medical marijuana initiatives passed with 59% of the vote in 1998 and 65% of the vote in 2000, proposed to the public this 2002 in ballot initiative 9 to totally eliminate all fines for the possession of less than 3 ounces of marijuana the initiative lost 39% to 60.7% although subsequent petitions to decriminalize marijuana have met with discrimination, the number of medical marijuana states grew to 17 states and Washington D.C. by 2010. In 2012 Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana for commercial cultivation. Colorado was raising hundreds of millions of dollars of state revenues. When the federal government (a) releases the nonviolent marijuana and drug offenders from federal prison, (b) abolishes prohibition and federal police bribery, and (c) removes marijuana from the CSA drug schedule, or reduces it from Schedule I to Schedule III and introduces alcohol and tobacco as Schedule II drugs - the United States can equitably share in tax revenues from legalizing marijuana.

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