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As San Francisco DA and California Attorney General, I was proud to pioneer a different approach. We named it Smart on Crime.
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Sessions has threatened that USDOJ may renew focus on marijuana use, even in states like California where it is now legal.
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Sessions advocated that prosecutors seek the harshest sentence available, including an increased use of mandatory minimums.
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Drug addiction is color blind. It doesn’t see red or blue.
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We need a national drug policy that finally treats substance abuse not as a crime to be punished, but as a disease to be treated.
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We need to build on reforms, instead of reviving mandatory minimums and boosting bottom lines for private prisons.
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We need to fund, not defund, the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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We need to make this administration understand that if they care about the opioid crisis in rural America, as they say they do...
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...they’ve also got to care about drug-addicted young man in Chicago or East LA.
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Neither did 20+ years of trickle down economics but Rs never learn from abject failure. Follow the $$$
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It's a war on people of color and people of poverty. Time to start being direct and blunt.
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Because Liberals handcuffed law enforcement. Bullets work
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What is needed is free rehab. You could use the money that would go toward harsher sentencing. Also more education.
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So we are admitting defeat and passing out free drugs.
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It worked in funneling money into prison industrial complex and protecting Big Pharma profits
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Neither did socialism but your side keeps pushing it
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All that money wasted, could've been spent to offer better after school programs which makes a huge difference
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