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The war on drugs is a racist policy.

Maybe a relic policy of racist era is more appropriate. I would think today’s lawmakers are more likely to oppose mj because they see it as something lazy hippies and stoner kids do rather than a tool to oppress minorities.

The War on Drugs is a racist policy. You can ignore the reality of it, but the facts speak for themselves.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/analysis-finds-racia...

+1 and if you need a pop culture version to explain it to you check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk (adam ruins everything) complete with references

So a relic racist policy of a different era? These laws were written 40 years ago, right?

> The New York Civil Liberties Union today released an analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 stop-and-frisk data showing that the stop-and-frisk program’s stark racial disparities and ineffectiveness in recovering illegal guns continued last year despite a decline in the overall number of stops.

This study was an analysis of data from 2012.

Right now is a racist era.

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