The War on Drugs began as a political hoax created by Richard Nixon as an act of political theatre. It has caused more suffering and death than the drugs themselves could have ever caused. Shame on every president since who didn’t have the nerve to say so.

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GUEST OPINION: The war on drugs failed. Lawmakers must find new solutions. - Sentinel Colorado

Here is the cold hard truth — we could increase prison sentences 10-fold, cut them by half, then triple them, and all those changes would do absolutely nothing to protect our families and loved ones...

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War on drugs started in 1914 w/ Woodrow Wilson.
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Don't do Kurt Vile like that
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Yup - part of the larger divide and conquer tactic still being used on us today.
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Though 'demon weed' is the brainchild the Prohibition Industrial Complex long before Nixon.
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It’s never been a war on drugs, since you can’t attack or imprison the drugs. It’s always been a war to stigmatize and imprison the poor to fill up prisons and throw communities and individuals into chaos who might vote for Democrats. That’s it basically.
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To think you could have just made a case against the war on drugs without the soapbox and theater.
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More like a war on consciousness.
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Crime bill, Nixon's war on steroids Over 6 million disenfranchised...barely a million just a generation ago
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Fentanyl is a whole new world. I agree with the father of a son who died of opioid overdose - we must classify #fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, bc it is, and then we can go after the production at its source and not punish small time drug dealers who are most likely…
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