This is your brain over drug war propaganda

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There have been some excellent articles recently on the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon’s Declaration on the “War on Drugs”. Apart from the fact that, as I mentioned earlier, the drug war is really over 100 years old.

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This small “discrepancy” of 50 years shows how serious our problem is. The aphorism about failure to learn from history is all the more relevant when we don’t even know when the story began.

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Can we just blame Nixon and then forget about Obama and Biden, the Bushes and Clinton?

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Donald Trump made libertarian noises before running for president, but he appointed Prohibitionist Attorneys General based on his assumption that they would be his personal Consiglioeres.

Biden is a very easily repentant drug warrior who can’t even admit he was wrong about marijuana, let alone the rest of the drug war.

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His unfortunate vice president was called in to solve the “border crisis” through photo ops.

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The totally incompetent governor of Texas can’t burn lights in the high-energy state, but he wants Texas to spend $ 250 million on Trump’s border wall. (That Mexico would pay for ???).

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I’ve talked for decades about its racial origins and the disproportionate effects on racial minorities, but now the African-American leadership who supported the drug war, even when “our” prisons were filled with “their” people, want the marijuana retail trade to be regulated that benefit the victims of their own politics.

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As a result, minority marijuana users have to pay more for marijuana to buy votes for the very politicians who voted for the drug war that suppressed them.

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And the United States Incarceration rate really is a national disgrace.

“While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world’s population, it houses about 22 percent of the world’s prisoners. Corrections (including jails, jails, parole, and probation) cost around $ 74 billion in 2007, according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics.

I mainly focused on marijuana, but the rest of the drug war raged on.

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The medical professional associations have run a “system” that is intellectually, morally, and financially bankrupt and yet they expect to be taken seriously as experts in criminal justice, social engineering, and law enforcement.

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The American Medical Association has even spoken out against medical marijuana. Even in Mississippi!

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However, the AMA “supports legislation that ensures or Federal law enforcement immunity for physicians who certify a patient has a recognized medical condition or recommend cannabis under their state’s laws. “

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In other words, the AMA stands up for its own members. Well, like we said earlier, this is mighty white.

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It is just common sense that anyone who has a drug problem needs to start by realizing that problem. This also applies to countries, cultures and professions. Denial is the first problem to face, but don’t mention the drug war.

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Richard Cowan is a former NORML National Director and author of Veganism And CBD.