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>Separately, a proposal to federally deschedule marijuana that does not include social equity components was filed by a pair of Republican congressmen in May.

>Separately, a proposal to federally deschedule marijuana that does not include social equity components was filed by a pair of Republican congressmen in May. A perfect example of a party willing to wash its hands of all the harm the previous policy has caused. No remorse whatsoever for the years of life and opportunities stolen from people, families and communities ripped apart over five decades of an explicitly racist[1] War on Drugs. 1. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/ https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...

jimmygrapes 5y ago
Would you prefer that a party never change its views over time? Because I doubt that standard would work out for modern morality if it were applied across the spectrum.
- omegaworks 5y ago
  I would prefer that a solution that didn't include reparations for prior harms wasn't even on the table. I would prefer that both parties felt extreme shame for their participation in the destruction of American communities. That any party would be embarrassed to see Americans still imprisoned for participating in an economy that they then later pivoted to opening to everyone.

jimmygrapes 5y ago

Would you prefer that a party never change its views over time? Because I doubt that standard would work out for modern morality if it were applied across the spectrum.

omegaworks 5y ago
I would prefer that a solution that didn't include reparations for prior harms wasn't even on the table. I would prefer that both parties felt extreme shame for their participation in the destruction of American communities. That any party would be embarrassed to see Americans still imprisoned for participating in an economy that they then later pivoted to opening to everyone.