1. Court fees (in dollars) the city of Costa Mesa spent by March in its legal challenges against medical marijuana clinics: 457,612 (Source: Voice of OC).
2. Donation (in dollars) a Costa Mesa dispensary operator had offered to give the city every year before being raided in January: 500,000 (Source: Daily Pilot).
3. Number of Costa Mesa city workers who received layoff notices in 2011: 213 (Source: Los Angeles Times).
4. Court costs (in dollars) incurred by the city of Lake Forest as of August 2011 in trying to shut down 38 dispensaries: 900,000-plus (Source: Orange County Register).
5. Number of medical marijuana dispensaries operating in Lake Forest as of March 2012: 38 (Source: Orange County Register).
6. Number of people who, in 1971, participated in the first known 420 Day celebration, held in 1971 in San Rafael: 5 (Source: Huffington Post).
7. Number of people who participated in the 420 Day observance on April 20, 2010 at Queen’s Park Circle in Toronto, Canada: 30,000-plus (Source: CNews.com).
8. Estimated percentage of Montana residents who are medical marijuana patients: 3 (Source: NORML).
9. Estimated number of Montana residents who are medical marijuana patients: 29,948 (Source: NORML).
10. Number of U.S. deaths in 2010 from adverse reactions to FDA-approved drugs: 82,724 (Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration).
11. Total number of U.S. deaths from 2001 to 2005 as a result of adverse reactions to FDA-approved drugs: 162,508 (Source: FDA).
12. Total number of U.S. deaths from 2006 to 2010 as a result of adverse reactions to FDA-approved drugs: 270,827 (Source: FDA).
13. Percentage increase in the number of U.S. deaths from adverse reactions to FDA-approved drugs from 2001 to 2010: 66.7 (Source: FDA).
14. Estimated number of prescription drug-related emergency room visits in the U.S. in 2009: 1.2 million (Source: Centers for Disease Control).
15. Percentage increase in the number of prescription drug-related ER visits in the U.S. from 2004 to 2009: 98.4 (Source: Centers for Disease Control).
16. Number of state marijuana arrests for every one federal marijuana arrest in the U.S.: 99 (Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission).
