Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by pessimizer on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:28PM (#25018033)

I was a black teenager living on the South Side of Chicago during that time, and the media crack obsession was largely hysterics, and sometimes outright fiction (as with "crack babies.")

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by brodo on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:44PM (#25018293)

Yea, I think experts agree that journalists are almost as much to blame for the war on drugs as politicians. If I remember correctly Johan Hari also writes about this in "Chasing the Scream".

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by nemo44x on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:27PM (#25019604)

I think in addition concentrating so much poverty in place amplified how bad it was. In actuality and also in perception.

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