If you haven't seen "The House I Live In" check it out. Really breaks down the racial history of the "war" on drugs.
What is clearer than ever is that a war on drugs in this country never truly existed. It was always a war on people - a very particular set of people - and drugs were used as the pretense for that war. That's how you "legalize" weed & weed arrests GO UP for Black folk.https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/956644454248706050 …
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hey, how bout that time the feds were fighting the war on drugs by actively facilitating cocaine distribution into our communities so they could illegally fund rightwing terror groups in central america causing floods of refugees 2 flee 2 US for asylum...what a wacky war on drugs
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According to Nixon's right hand man, the War on Drugs was SOLELY created to subjugate anti-war hippies & blacks. https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html …
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Honestly. Every word of this is perfect. And right.
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It's TERRORISM. Call it what it is....
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@DanReynolds This is the problem with drugs in America.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It is abundantly clear that the roots of institutional racism run deep. The stats speak for themselves - thank you for exploring this in your reporting so we can all understand what is going on here. Changed my whole perspective.
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It’s just another ruse based from the government’s penchant for creating “Us verses Them” mentalities and demonizing groups of people to sell an ideology to citizens. The CIA helped funnel drugs and fund drug traffickers the whole time.
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It goes back to reefer madness...the DEA’s predecessor agency was founded on racism...promoting the idea that black men would bed down your white daughter using MJ. Reference “Chasing the Scream” by Johann Hari. That book changed my ideas on drug enforcement. I was a career cop
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Peak race baiting autism.
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Wow well said Shaun!
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Happy this is being talked about! Wrote a similar article about a year ago in the Afro additionally highlighting the over-saturation of pot shops in minority communities in Denver replicating what the liquor industry has done.https://twitter.com/WillVJones/status/948418802705928193 …
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issa war on consciousness
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Lol. Come on! Is this news to anybody? They never gave a s8 about drugs? They need bodies in those jails so that the Corp running them can charge state and feds $$$$$$. This America. Follow the $$$
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You equate weed use to going to the library.
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