1. Revenue generated for San Francisco’s general fund by the city’s 26 cannabis dispensaries in the third quarter of fiscal year 2011: 410,000-plus (Source: San Francisco Controller’s Office).
2. Estimated annual sales (in dollars) of medical marijuana in San Francisco: 41 million (Source: San Francisco Controller’s office).
3. Business tax revenue (in dollars) generated in 2011 by medical marijuana dispensaries for the city of Oakland: 1.4 million (Source: Oakland Revenue Department).
4. Total number of dispensaries currently operating in the city of Oakland: 4 (Source: Oakland Business Development Corp.).
5. Number of new dispensaries Oakland city officials plan to permit in the hopes of generating more business tax revenue: 4 (Source: The New York Times).
6. Estimated percentage of U.S. federal prisoners incarcerated for drug offenses: 50 (Source: The Sentencing Project).
7. Percentage increase from 1980 to 2012 in number of convicted drug offenders in federal prisons: 1,300 (Source: The Sentencing Project).
8. 2011 budget (in dollars) for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: 2.4 billion (Source: 2011 U.S. federal budget).
9. Total 2011 U.S. Drug War budget (in dollars): 15 billion (Source: 2011 U.S. federal budget).
10. Estimated revenue (in dollars) Oregon plans to raise annually from fees charged to patients joining the state’s medical marijuana program: 6.7 million (Source: The New York Times).
11. 2011 federal grant (in dollars) to Coalition for a Drug Free America, which wants to prevent cannabis users from holding jobs: 88.5 million (Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy).
12. Percentage of California voters surveyed who support the proposed Medical Marijuana Regulation, Control and Tax Act: 59.2 (Source: Problolsky Research poll).
13. Percentage of California voters surveyed who support the proposed Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative: 62 (Source: Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin, Metz poll).
14. Percentage of state voters who believe state and local law enforcement spends too much time and resources fighting marijuana: 71 (Source: Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin, Metz poll).
15. Percentage of likely state voters who believe state and federal drug laws have failed: 80 (Source: Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin, Metz poll).
