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States keep making the same mistake with legalization
By
Alex Halperin
Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021

In the 50 years since President Richard Nixon initiated the war on drugs, politicians of both major parties have endorsed aggressive police tactics and harsh punishments to combat substance abuse, and minority communities have disproportionately suffered. Black Americans are several times...
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