It’s time to end America’s War on Drugs. Initiated in 1971, we have spent $1 trillion and it has only exacerbated the problem. 1/4

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In the 1970s there were 300,000 people in US prisons; today there are 2.3 million. Almost half of all federal prisoners are nonviolent drug offenders. 2/4
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We should treat drugs not as a criminal issue but as a health issue (such as in nations like Portugal.) For a fraction of the $100 billion we spend a year on the War on Drugs, we could pay for a world-class network of recovery options that actually help people get sober. 3/4
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As president I don’t want a Drug Czar; I want a Recovery Czar. 4/4 Here is my drug policy: marianne2024.com/issues/drug…

Drug Policy

Last year, 109,680 people in the US died from drugs, and every year that number has been rising. Add up all the motor vehicle fatalities and all the gun…

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We have to balance the budget Marianne. We can’t continue to sink in our own debt. What’s your plan?
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Scale back the military prison industrial complex.
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I hate this misconception that the war on drugs started in 1971. It actually started back in the 1930's with a racist prohibitionist named Harry Anslinger. The man who killed Billy Holliday wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm…

The Man Who Declared War On Drugs | On the Media | WNYC Studios

The "War on Drugs" started long before Nixon. It goes back to a man named Harry J. Anslinger and his quest to demonize and racialize drugs.

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While yes, the Controlled Substances Act was passed in 1971 by Richard Nixon, no, that was not the beginning of the war on drugs. The American war on drugs began in 1875 when San Francisco passed the nation's first anti-drug law, a ban on opium dens.
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Why are you money laundering for the DNC by using Act Blue?
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Correct. As well as the war on poverty, the war on homelessness, the war on terror, because every "war" the government fights, it loses. Also, maybe eliminate "Czars" positions. There's a reason there's so much stigma attached to that word.
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