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“I think our #federal and #state #drug #policy has been counterproductive, not to mention horribly expensive. After 20 years of experiencing our myopic #drugwar, without any successful reduction in #druguse, I have come to the reluctant conclusion that the #criminal #law remedy

“I think our #federal and #state #drug #policy has been counterproductive, not to mention horribly expensive. After 20 years of experiencing our myopic #drugwar, without any successful reduction in #druguse, I have come to the reluctant conclusion that the #criminal #law remedy
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The negative fallout from Drug Prohibition is so vast, it’s easy to overlook even some harms that will be haunting us for generations. Consider the explosion in the incarceration of mothers. Don’t let things get worse yet. End Drug Prohibition now. Come visit us at

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“If the resources now spent on #criminalization of #drugs were devoted instead to #education and #treatment, the cost and danger of #druguse would be greatly reduced. . . . The money spent on #police practices that fail to reduce consumption could be directed to traditional areas

“If the resources now spent on #criminalization of #drugs were devoted instead to #education and #treatment, the cost and danger of #druguse would be greatly reduced. . . . The money spent on #police practices that fail to reduce consumption could be directed to traditional areas
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“Drug use, legal and illegal, is principally a #health problem which is best dealt with not by driving it underground with #prohibition tactics, but by having it out in the open to allow for #treatment and #education.” — United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella

“Drug use, legal and illegal, is principally a #health problem which is best dealt with not by driving it underground with #prohibition tactics, but by having it out in the open to allow for #treatment and #education.”

— United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella
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Judges are understandably reluctant to comment on #political topics. But it’s interesting to consider what more and more of them are saying about the War on Drugs. Don’t let things get worse yet. End Drug Prohibition now. Come visit us at ProhibitionBlunder.org to see more—and

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Ready to end Drug Prohibition for good? Read our July newsletter for ways you can use Your Powerful Voice to make an impact! Read the newsletter: prohibitionblunder.org/so/97PXSlNGm?l… #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs

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“It is difficult to understand why #illegal #drug #addiction should be treated differently from #alcoholism or #nicotine addiction: all are basically public #healthproblems.” — United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder

“It is difficult to understand why #illegal #drug #addiction should be treated differently from #alcoholism or #nicotine addiction: all are basically public #healthproblems.”

— United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella

#DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder
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Don't forget to #subscribe to our email list to receive our #newsletter featuring our latest Legalization Minute videos, blog posts, quotes from economists, and much more! Together, we can put an end to the Prohibition Blunder! prohibitionblunder.org/subscribe #DrugProhibition

Don't forget to #subscribe to our email list to receive our #newsletter featuring our latest Legalization Minute videos, blog posts, quotes from economists, and much more!

Together, we can put an end to the Prohibition Blunder!

prohibitionblunder.org/subscribe

#DrugProhibition
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Drug Prohibition doesn’t just fail to control drugs. It necessarily makes the drugs much worse. #Economists and others have observed that the actual outcomes of #Prohibition of all kinds are almost always the opposite of the intended outcomes. Asked why we have a #WaronDrugs,

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“There is just so much #money to be made that the slim chance of being caught is always worth the risk.” — Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs

“There is just so much #money to be made that the slim chance of being caught is always worth the risk.”

— Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California

#DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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Alarmed #economists and public figures knowledgeable about the actual effects of #prohibition schemes have warned us of the disastrous results we're facing due to Drug Prohibition. We've collected those voices into one 9-page document you can read and share. It's our hope that

Alarmed #economists and public figures knowledgeable about the actual effects of #prohibition schemes have warned us of the disastrous results we're facing due to Drug Prohibition.

We've collected those voices into one 9-page document you can read and share. It's our hope that
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Some people make the mistake of agreeing Drug Prohibition has been a lethal catastrophe but then imagining regulation through #legalization might not work. We’ve collected 26 of the overwhelmingly likely actual outcomes of taking this courageous—and correct—step. Here are the

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“Believe me, after 20 years as a prosecutor and judge, I can assure you that we only catch the stupid ones.” — Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs

“Believe me, after 20 years as a prosecutor and judge, I can assure you that we only catch the stupid ones.”

— Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California

#DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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Don't forget to #subscribe to our email list to receive our #newsletter featuring our latest Legalization Minute videos, blog posts, quotes from economists, and much more! Together, we can put an end to the Prohibition Blunder! prohibitionblunder.org/subscribe #DrugProhibition

Don't forget to #subscribe to our email list to receive our #newsletter featuring our latest Legalization Minute videos, blog posts, quotes from economists, and much more!

Together, we can put an end to the Prohibition Blunder!

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#DrugProhibition
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Here are 13 more of the overwhelmingly likely outcomes of ending Drug Prohibition. For the sake of the 300 people who die unnecessarily every day from this nightmare, let’s end Drug Prohibition now! Come visit us at ProhibitionBlunder.org to see more—and to see what you can do

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“More than 50 percent of #Americans have breached the #drug #laws. Where a #law is that widely broken, you can’t possibly enforce it against every lawbreaker. The legal system would collapse under the weight of it. So you go after the people who are least able to resist, to argue

“More than 50 percent of #Americans have breached the #drug #laws. Where a #law is that widely broken, you can’t possibly enforce it against every lawbreaker. The legal system would collapse under the weight of it. So you go after the people who are least able to resist, to argue
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300 #Americans die every single day thanks to the #WaronDrugs—totaling nearly 2 million deaths since 1988. The time for honesty and action is now. The #economists have stated time and again that the only real #drugcontrol is effective r#egulation through #legalization; don’t let

300 #Americans die every single day thanks to the #WaronDrugs—totaling nearly 2 million deaths since 1988. The time for honesty and action is now.

The #economists have stated time and again that the only real #drugcontrol is effective r#egulation through #legalization; don’t let
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“It took me a while to see that the contrast between the #racism directed at Billie Holiday and the compassion offered to #addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the #drugwar—it was part of the point.” — Johann Hari, journalist #DrugProhibition

“It took me a while to see that the contrast between the #racism directed at Billie Holiday and the compassion offered to #addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the #drugwar—it was part of the point.”

— Johann Hari, journalist

#DrugProhibition
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Definitive proof all these seizures are a sham. Come visit us at ProhibitionBlunder.org to see more—and to see what you can do to help. Watch and share: youtu.be/jXt9_AkUvJk #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs

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“People overdose because [under #prohibition] they don’t know if the heroin is 1 percent or 40 percent . . . . Just imagine if every time you picked up a bottle of wine, you didn’t know whether it was 8 percent alcohol or 80 percent alcohol [or] if every time you took an

“People overdose because [under #prohibition] they don’t know if the heroin is 1 percent or 40 percent . . . .  Just imagine if every time you picked up a bottle of wine, you didn’t know whether it was 8 percent alcohol or 80 percent alcohol [or] if every time you took an