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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Look at the DEA production schedule. The US produced 1.2 kg of LSD last year, and the same is scheduled for 2024. Large quantities of MDMA have been produced, and the story is military experiments to treat PSTD. So what exactly is this war?