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references for statements made by David Borden:

• Past-year prevalence of marijuana use among young people in the tolerant Netherlands about half as in nearby France:
  The State of the Drugs Problem in Europe, 2007 report EMCDDA (page 41)

• States with marijuana decriminalization have not seen resulting rises in use:
  various studies including Institute of Medicine, Monitoring the Future, Connecticut Law Review Commission, others

• Teen marijuana use declines in states with medical marijuana laws:
  Marijuana Use by Young People: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws

• Substitution effect between marijuana use and alcohol use:
  Substitution of Marijuana for Alcohol: The Role of Perceived Access and Harm, Journal of Drug Education, 2006

• Average Age of Netherlands heroin addicts has been increasing (e.g. few young heroin addicts):
  Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction

• Opiates and cocaine were banned almost a century ago (1914) by the Harrison Narcotics Act:
  Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

• Taliban earns $100 million in opium profits in 2007:
  Drug War Chronicle citing UN Office on Drugs and Crime Chief Antonio Costa on BBC

• Drug prohibition sends hundreds of billions of dollars per year in illicit revenues to the global underground:
  UN World Drug Report, via Drug War Chronicle

• The US homicide rate increased under alcohol prohibition and decreased following its repeal:
  Schaffer Library alcohol prohibition section

• Street price of cocaine (adjusted for purity and inflation) drops by 80% since 1980:
  Rand Corporation, via Joint Economic Committee, US Senate