Drug shouldn't even be a legal problem except for the dealers at the top and any lower-level dealers who deliberately try to hook people. For everyone else the answer is medical care, including education.
trumpy will probably want to bomb drugs out of existence. If this harms minorities and the poor, so what. At least the drugs will be scared.
With only weeks left of his administration, President Joe Biden has earned praise from rights groups and advocates for exercising his clemency powers, including announcing Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row—but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is urging him to go further.
"We thank the president for this significant step and urge him to use his last few days in office to commute the sentences of the thousands of Americans impacted by the War on Drugs and decades of harmful, disparate convictions and sentencing," wrote Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in a statement on Monday.
Per Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that addresses the harms of drug use and drug criminalization, there are nearly 360,000 American behind bars due to a drug offense. "This includes thousands of people charged with federal marijuana offenses or who are serving long federal mandatory minimum sentences due to the unfair crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity," according to the group.
The fact that black men suffer higher rates of addiction and OD should be all the evidence anyone ever needs of entrenched, systemic racism. Gotta escape that suffering, somehow.
I know that “Sexts from thirsty journalists that keep the blood a-stir!” is a side-crack aimed specifically at RFK, but how creepy is that? I mean, who of us *wants* to be pursued by a thirsty reporter sexting us constantly? At no point in my life or youth was I ever so desperate that this would be anything other than utterly insta-block creepy.
I think it could also be that a lot of black dudes end up working physical labor. That shit is rough on the body. You get one bad injury and opioids or more can be a game changer in ability to do things today regardless of tomorrow
Guess the testers are particularly potent on the corners right now :(
Drug shouldn't even be a legal problem except for the dealers at the top and any lower-level dealers who deliberately try to hook people. For everyone else the answer is medical care, including education.
trumpy will probably want to bomb drugs out of existence. If this harms minorities and the poor, so what. At least the drugs will be scared.
Most people with RFK's record would fail character and fitness and be blocked from admission to the bar.
Could the pain of sickle cell anemia be a factor?
The War on Drugs
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐔𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 360,000 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒.
With only weeks left of his administration, President Joe Biden has earned praise from rights groups and advocates for exercising his clemency powers, including announcing Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row—but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is urging him to go further.
"We thank the president for this significant step and urge him to use his last few days in office to commute the sentences of the thousands of Americans impacted by the War on Drugs and decades of harmful, disparate convictions and sentencing," wrote Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in a statement on Monday.
Per Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that addresses the harms of drug use and drug criminalization, there are nearly 360,000 American behind bars due to a drug offense. "This includes thousands of people charged with federal marijuana offenses or who are serving long federal mandatory minimum sentences due to the unfair crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity," according to the group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressive-caucus-commute-sentences-biden
AND Marcie ends it with a Morphine reference. The band, not the drug.
Further cementing her status as my Favorite Person In The World.
https://youtu.be/hK5w0_rqfvE?si=LHShvCx_xuLsMg6W
Exactly.
Continue to RIP, Billy Conway.
Not to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure racism is winning the war on drugs. Just as Nixon intended.
The fact that black men suffer higher rates of addiction and OD should be all the evidence anyone ever needs of entrenched, systemic racism. Gotta escape that suffering, somehow.
"Black men in their 50s and older have been living on the frontlines of the Ehrlichman drug war for most of their lives."
Ta-daaa! There it is!
The only cure for pain is death.
that is all.....
Namaste
Hear, hear.
Pain comes in all shapes and sizes... but all of them will kill you.
So will a healthy life and a lack of pain, eventually.
Pumping drugs into your system will be critical to surviving the Trump years, ...but be careful!
Fortunately, chocolate works pretty well for me.
I think it does become a question of which ones
I know that “Sexts from thirsty journalists that keep the blood a-stir!” is a side-crack aimed specifically at RFK, but how creepy is that? I mean, who of us *wants* to be pursued by a thirsty reporter sexting us constantly? At no point in my life or youth was I ever so desperate that this would be anything other than utterly insta-block creepy.
Tfg's got a solution to drug use. He's gonna tell everybody how bad drugs are for you, except for the one's mother gives you. He's digging deep into the Nancy Reagan playbook for this one. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/22/trump-anti-drug-ads-cartels-terrorists/77155314007/
https://youtu.be/OusADDs_3ps?si=CNfoEm456m3NDwD_
I think it could also be that a lot of black dudes end up working physical labor. That shit is rough on the body. You get one bad injury and opioids or more can be a game changer in ability to do things today regardless of tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgvBWR0Tr7I
[ Morphine - Cure For Pain (Live) ]