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
It seems that projects with initials "war on .." fail!
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Recovery is free.
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Now apply that to the war on poverty, and government involvement in education, healthcare and the costbof secondary education (student loans). Notice a common factor?
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The last thing any society needed was to turn a medical and social issue - drug abuse - into a criminal issue. The "war" on drugs does immensely more damage than the drugs themselves could. Portugal is the only nation doing it even remotely sanely, by decriminalizing and helping.
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🌟Your point is spot on. It's time for a new approach. Shifting the focus towards rehabilitation, education, & addressing root causes can create real change. Let's channel resources into strategies that truly heal & empower. 🌍💪 #RethinkSolutions #PositiveChange #FridayFeeling
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We didn't learn from the failures with alcohol prohibition and continue to violate our constitutional rights with a war against our own people.
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A by product of Drug War is DEA/DOJ witch hunts on Pain Mgm Drs. Pain Patients are suffering due to lies, misinformation and now, shortages for FDA Approved opioid pain meds. 🆘#SaveOpioidScripts
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Nothing has done more to empower cartels and gangs than the War on Drugs. Who thought it was a good idea to make sick people reliant on criminal organizations? 🤦‍♂️
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Solution?
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