1. Estimated number of medical marijuana patients in the city of Los Angeles: 350,000 (Source: Union of Medical Marijuana Patients).
2. Estimated number of lawsuits filed against the city of Los Angeles’ medical-marijuana ordinance as of January: 61 (Source: L.A. City Attorney’s Office).
3. Estimated number of liquor stores in the city of Los Angeles: 3,400 (Source: L.A. Business and Economics Office).
4. Taxpayer money (in dollars) Lake Forest spent by the end of 2011 trying to shut down local medical marijuana dispensaries: 585,000 (Source: LA Weekly).
5. Number of Costa Mesa dispensaries to receive official “cease-and-desist” letters since the federal government began its crackdown in October: 36 (Source: NBC Los Angeles).
6. Number of people arrested in the U.S. on marijuana charges every minute: 2 (Source: The Rutherford Institute).
7. Ratio of African-Americans incarcerated for drug offenses versus white Americans incarcerated for drug offenses: 10 to 1 (Source: American Civil Liberties Union).
8. Taxpayer bill (in millions of dollars) for 2010 activities of the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP)—California’s cannabis eradication force: 3.1 (Source: State Attorney General’s office).
9. Number of holiday-themed edibles—including medicated gingerbread houses and peppermint bark—offered in December at a Washington dispensary: 58 (Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
10. Number of states that prohibit citizens convicted of misdemeanor marijuana offenses from adopting children: 38 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
11. Number of states that impose lifetime adoption bans on citizens convicted of misdemeanor marijuana offenses: 7 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
12. Number of states that bar students convicted of possessing any amount of cannabis from receiving federal financial aid for a year or longer: 28 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
13. The percentage of college freshmen who say they support legalization: 49.1 (Source: UCLA “American Freshman” poll).
14. Estimated number of registered medical marijuana patients in Arizona: 18,000 (Source: Phoenix New Times).
15. Estimated number of cannabis users (in millions) in Great Britain: 2 (Source: Royal College of Psychiatrics).
