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Nixon's Drug War          Chloe Jones
Today –  President Richard Nixon launched America’s “War On Drugs” 40 years ago today – resulting in (a) the arrest of millions of Americans, (b) the US criminal justice system becoming a multi-billion-a-year growth industry and (c) more illegal drug use by Americans than ever before.  Only, a few weeks ago, the UN’s Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report concluding, “The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences on  individuals and societies around the world.”
      On a more local note, in Florida:
Trends                       1989                2009              %                  
Population              12,797,318    18,750,483    45%
Drug Arrests           82,551            146,056         77%
Prisoners                 39,999            103,423         159%

Birthday Girl – Deceased Playboy model and Porn  Star Chloe Jones nee Melinda Dee Jones was born 36 years ago today in the hard-scrabble Texas town of Silsbee, home to 7,000 folks and 39 churches. One of numerous alleged sexual partners of Charlie Sheen, the Vicodin-addicted Chloe was 30 years old when she died of liver failure in a Texas charity hospital ward  – leaving her screen sex partner husband, three children and an undistinguished library of pornographic films. Wrote one journalist in a remarkably candid obituary, Chloe and her sisters “had trailer trash in their blood – their grandmother, a local beauty queen and barbiturate addict, shot herself in front of their mother when she was young.”
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