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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The number of people that overdose and die from alcohol is about the same number as all overdose deaths from all drugs combined. The war on drugs has created the cartels, responsible for deaths of thousands of people and wasted billions of dollars.
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The obscene amounts of money America misspends,misuses and doesn’t or won’t account for, annually… is a clear indicator of the imbalances, greed and selfishness which is the path to “failed state” status in the history books.
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The winner of war on drugs is the drugs.
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Now, calculate the War on Poverty…
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Did we hide the cure for cancer by prohibition of cannabis?
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You criticize a lot of things but I’ve never once seen you give us solutions. You can win anything on criticism. Sorry.
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What's your solution?
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A lot like the $100 billion spent on the Ukraine war.
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Nixon admn already explained its purpose 🙃 "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be black, against war"
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