Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States and federal prisons and an upwards of 750,000 in local jails for marijuana related crimes. Today there are over 1.5 million Americans serving time in an institution. If marijuana was decriminalized, these numbers were further be reduced again to below 700,000 inmates and save the taxpayers billions of dollars per year. The United States spends an estimated $68 billion per year on prisoners with a third of that number have been incarcerated for non-violent drug crimes including a sixth of those numbers as marijuana drug related offenses. A reduction in the prison population due to decriminalizing marijuana could save an
TaxPayers' Alliance Tea Party leadership, with Matthew Elliott stating in September 2010: "We need to learn from our European colleagues and the Tea Party movement in the US. It will be fascinating to see whether it will transfer to the UK. Will there be the same sort of uprising?" In 2009, the TaxPayers' Alliance was mentioned 29 times by "The Guardian", was quoted in 517 "Daily Mail" articles, 317 times in "The Sun" – including once by a shirtless model on Page Three. The TaxPayers' Alliance is not officially affiliated with any political party. It has been accused of being a Conservative