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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by pjc50 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:48PM (#25016759)
This is unfortunately true. Does not imply that the current organization is, though.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by zdragnar on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:56PM (#25016842)
That was entirely my original point- that the war on drugs may have been started with ill intent 50 years ago should not have bearing on today's policy decisions.

Whether we legalize or not, whether that helps minorities or not, i think we agree that constantly recriminating the past isn't helping.

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by pessimizer on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:38PM (#25018196)
> i think we agree that constantly recriminating the past isn't helping.

We don't. You're advocating for both actively ignoring the reasons that we did things, and for the assumption that things that we do are done for a reason.

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by mythrwy on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:42PM (#25020988)
The relative percentages of babies aborted by race might though.

(disclaimer: pro-choice)

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