IMO this is the greatest domestic issue we face - so many problems are a result of criminalizing drugs.
The war on drugs was a failure. It criminalized what is a public health matter. It was a war on poor communities more than anything.
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- it ruins lives - it ruins families - it ruins communities - it costs tax payers immensely (police, legal system, prisons)
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So, just like your war on sex workers, disproportionately minorities and women, then.
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Sex work should be legal and regulated so that the focus can be on preventing the sex trafficking of children.
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Agreed, but IS a failure, and STILL criminalizes. Sadly not past tense.
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And now mass incarceration is making money for private prisons
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but tax payer pay the private prisons who need a quota of inmates to be profitable tempting to bribe judges jail people for unpaid fines
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This point isn't made in the MSM enough. Not enough being a euphemism for hardly ever.https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/855562881999482880 …
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it was just another way to convict POC of felonies and strip them of their voting rights
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Yes other ways weren't working so well.Easier to label poc as "bad" guys.Just as brn are labeled "bad hombres"
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