The "War on Drugs"
Militarization of the Drug War
"The United States ranks first in the world in per capita incarceration-withl less than 5% of the world's population, but almost 25% of the world's prisoners. The number of people locked up for U.S. drug-law violations has increased from roughly 50,000 in 1980 to almost 500,000 today; that's more than the number of people Western Europe locks up for everything!!" (Nadelmann, Ethan. Drugs. Think Again. (October 2007). July 15, 2008.)
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/multimedia.html
Here is a video if you're bored↓
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/205_million.wmv