Today we spend over $100 billion a year fighting the War on Drugs – we’ve spent $1T since its inception - and the problem has only gotten worse, not better.🧵

Aug 25, 2023 · 12:32 PM UTC

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We need to end the Drug War and change the paradigm from criminality to recovery. For a fraction of what we spend on the drug war, we could create a recovery-based health model and actually take on the problem.
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Half of our incarcerated population are nonviolent drug offenders. It needs to stop. Drugs should be legalized and regulated. The war on drugs has been a war on people. When I am President this is going to change.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The number of drug users only increases slightly when drugs are flooding the market. So fighting a increase in illegal drugs is a waste of money. Plus there is only a percentage of people that will ever become addicted to drugs
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Wall!
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Replying to @marwilliamson @SpottlessMarxx
pot has gotten better, but it was never a problem to begin with
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There is only one option that will work.
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The war on drugs is a symptom of our failed neoliberal economy & the militarization of the US against its own citizens & the world (& the adoption of a command economy). 1)
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Don’t leave out the $100 billion to Ukraine
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Replying to @marwilliamson
If you ask the prison industrial complex… it’s working exactly as planned.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Maybe you should support not doing that with Ukraine, then.
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