Trump and Biden and the elites of both parties are still at odds with each other, and the melons tend to focus on which of the two 70-80 year olds will seize power. But unfortunately, this battle has torn both parties apart and corrupted vote politics, ultimately leading to the unprecedented rise of drug dealers. ……
In the general election the two sides began to consistently compete for voters.
And the 2020’s are a huge population of American drug users.
Drug users, including Musk, are voters.
So how to win them over and please them
It became a policy breakthrough point for the American grassroots in both parties.
Trump becomes the only staunch anti-drug soloist.
Finally such an America has given birth to
First Full Range of Drug Legalization States in 2020 Election
And once Hogan Lee, who was already a drug addict, rose to power
She’s really going to promote the drug business in all the states.
A screenshot of the Guardian’s report of 15 March
Screenshot of the Guardian 13 report
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Drug Legalization Moves Quietly Across States
The bipartisan battle over the outcome of the 2020 election continues ……. Until a final judicial interpretation is made, no one can say that the party has really won. However, there is one particular group of people who have actually won, and that is the drug dealers.
From the Pacific Northwest states to the Southern states, the trend toward legalization of drugs won a national victory on Election Day.
Now, under the first state law in U.S. history to legalize drugs, Oregonians will soon not be arrested for possession of small amounts of the dreaded “get-out-of-jail-free” list, which includes heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine.
Elon Musk smokes marijuana in public during his show.
It’s like a slap in the face to the President.
In New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota, and Montana, voters there joined 11 other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational marijuana. Washington, D.C. also passed an initiative to make hallucinogenic mushroom extracts and other natural psychedelics the lowest possible enforcement point. Even Mississippi has legalized medical marijuana.
After months of global black rebellion, many advocates of such movements have focused their message on “racial disparities in drug enforcement. In New Jersey, a social media ad explains how marijuana arrests can damage “the image of young black men and women. In order to accommodate the widespread black drug population, local lawmakers have acquiesced in the process of decriminalizing the drug in question. ……
Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Hershey Ignites During Speech
Tell the public that she is also a chronic addict.
and promised to make drug trafficking legal throughout the United States.
And legal activists in Oregon point out that a statewide scientific study found that drug conviction rates for blacks and Native Americans would drop nearly 95 percent under the state’s newly established decriminalization law. Such legislation would make it far less likely that police officers would pursue blacks, thus “essentially eliminating violent law enforcement.
However, despite the success of these legislative processes, it remains unclear what impact the new measures will have on communities of color, which have long been disproportionately targeted in the war on drugs. Although many states are moving toward full drug legalization, drug-related offenses remain the most common reason for arrest in the United States.
According to 2018 federal data, nearly 40 percent of arrests in all U.S. states were for marijuana possession alone. Black drug users and drug dealers accounted for 27% of these arrests and 13% of the overall number of people charged nationwide. (Considering that the percentage of blacks in the U.S. is much smaller than in some European countries…this percentage is ridiculous)
Even in states that have enacted more lenient drug-specific laws, racial disparities in law enforcement have not disappeared. A study this year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) found that “in every state that has legalized or decriminalized marijuana possession, blacks are still more likely than whites to be arrested for possession of marijuana.”
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After Canada’s first legalization
Unprecedented pressure to decriminalize in bordering U.S. states
Being arrested for heavy marijuana use, selling marijuana, using marijuana on school grounds, or smoking marijuana underage …… is still illegal in several states that have legalized the drug. In Maine and Vermont, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, racial disparities in marijuana arrests worsened after the passage of drug legalization laws. In California and Nevada, where Hogan Lee is from, the disparity has improved. (Since California doesn’t even file a case for robbery under $950, who’s going to arrest a drug dealer?)
Some opponents of drug legalization say that the increase in arrests is due to the continued conviction of black market drug dealers and offenders who still exist outside the tightly regulated legal marketplace. They also argue that the broader potential for drug abuse in the form of crimes such as drugged driving under the influence of drugs under legalization could lead to increased attention with police, especially for people of color who are frequent drug users.
According to Kevin Sabet, former White House advisor on national drug control policy, “If the goal of drug decriminalization is to end racial disparities, states should continue to focus on decriminalization.
He said, “Those who think you either have to arrest someone and lock them up or you have to lie in bed and enjoy a big cigarette and eat junk food have a false binary view of the world.” …… “Oregon already has a decent system for converting drug users (from prison).”
Full map of U.S. states advancing the drug decriminalization process
This trend should be hard to stop.
But proponents of drug legalization say that the effects of an arrest or criminal conviction can last for years, even if people aren’t serving long prison sentences for drug possession. And for repeat drug offenders, a drug conviction can mean a longer sentence for any future offense. This is inhumane, and the possibility of police officers harassing drug users must be fundamentally eliminated ……
“Since then, they’ve got you,” Bobby Byrd told reporters, a volunteer with Oregon’s 110 Emergency Services who has struggled to find a place to hide, change jobs, and get busy getting his license to be a drug counselor after committing felony cocaine…. …Now, he’s finally straightened up: “People who use drugs need help, not punishment. But that didn’t make my life with drugs any harder.”
In South Dakota, which legalized marijuana last week, the number of marijuana arrests has increased dramatically since 2007, and the racial disparity is particularly pronounced among Native Americans. Native Americans make up 10 percent of the state’s population, but in 2018 alone, nearly 20 percent of Native Americans were arrested for marijuana possession. They make up almost a third of the state’s prison population.
Organizers of the campaign to decriminalize drugs say people must remain vigilant about the overregulation of communities of color. “The harsh reality is that institutional oppression in America has always incarcerated black and brown people differently,” said Kayse Jama, executive director of Unite Oregon, a social justice organization. “I think the new decriminalization law is a big step forward; it’s a tool that we want to remove from their toolbox of imprisoning people. But we also understand that so-called law enforcement will continue to target our communities of color.”
Syringes becoming more common on the streets of the Oregon State Capital
The police are becoming more and more afraid to arrest drug dealers.
Jama also noted the importance of decriminalization for new immigrants, as immigrants will be less likely to face deportation or other poor consequences at the federal level for state-level drug offenses because of the new legislation. “
So far in FY 2020, over 600 people have been deported from the U.S., and their most serious conviction was drug possession. That’s not fair…
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There is also the question of whether the black community will be able to profit from the marijuana industry in states that legalized the drug for the first time. This question has troubled many politicians… Many states have banned people convicted of felonies from working in dispensaries, or buying dispensaries big enough to refine the drug, and these dispensary bans impose a disproportionate burden on people of color who are dependent on the drug. This is being taken seriously by state governments. Next, they will continue to track how the laws can be changed to allow blacks to truly benefit from the drug trade.
The key to eliminating this dynamic is to ensure that those who have already been prosecuted for marijuana or other drugs can be released from prison or systematically cleared of their criminal records. Melissa Mentel, executive director of South Dakota Advancing New Laws, said that while expungement was not part of the original ballot initiative in South Dakota, her team will push the policy through the state legislature.
“Expungement of criminal records is everything,” said Mentel. “It’s not just about passing a law – you hold people’s lives in your hands.” She has been urging lawmakers to pass an “expungement” ordinance, which would help many former drug dealers disappear from the police radar….
A New Drug Derived from Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
It will also complete the process of decriminalization
Decriminalization organizers in Oregon have also indicated that they plan to address expungement and sentence reduction issues in the upcoming legislative session. Currently, at least 15 states have passed laws with new legislation that makes it easier to expunge marijuana-related arrests from criminal records.
Of the states applying the new laws, New Jersey may be particularly important, with one of the highest rates of marijuana trafficking arrests, averaging more than 600 arrests per week in 2019 for selling marijuana and possessing too much marijuana.
But in, a new legal marijuana chain is born in a state with an economy that could total as much as $6 billion, and while some legalization supporters see it as a new business opportunity or source of tax revenue, putting racial justice at the center of the conversation instead becomes a challenge. Now that drug use is legal, state governments and politicians are likely to move forward with the next motion to expand the drug economy to save the state’s market, which has been devastated in recent years.
“In 2014, we saw a decriminalized version of the bill pass that didn’t even remove the word ‘drug trafficking,'” said Amol Sinha, the New Jersey bureau chief of the American Civil Liberties Union, which supported the new measure.
The issue of amending the state’s constitution to legalize marijuana was passed to the state’s voters after a 2019 bill failed to pass the New Jersey Senate. The American Civil Liberties Union led the campaign for the referendum, which cost more than $300,000 in total. Sinha said, “This is a huge strategic investment. Every step of the way we’ve been guided by the banner of anti-racist justice …… which is what resonated with the voters.”
Activists want trade in all types of drugs and raw materials
Can be a new source of economic growth for these states
Now it’s up to lawmakers to craft the law, and it remains to be seen how much of the racial equality message will be included in the provisions of the new legislation. But District 20 Rep. Jemel Hawley, a Democrat who worked on the old marijuana decriminalization bill and is helping steer the new one off the ground, said he’s committed to meeting the demands of his constituents.
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Holly, a representative of the local black movement, commented, “We in the black community must not allow the big corporations to take over this marijuana industry, but at the same time, it looks like my personal criminal record is so important that I can’t get a job or housing without a write-off.” …… “My only focus is to repair the damage done in the past (by the legislation).”
Before voting to pass the bill, Hawley called on the state to immediately dismiss all marijuana-related court cases, suspend all arrests for marijuana possession and implement an expedited decriminalization legislative process.
Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing, commented, “These actions show that politicians are going after voters and treating drug legalization as an anti-racist, politically correct issue, not just a black income issue.”
Vitale said, “We see an important point in the judicial measures that have been passed and the polling data that has emerged that American voters are more progressive than political candidates…The American public seems very willing to engage in a comprehensive rethinking of the war on drugs and economic justice.”
Below I’ll post some of America’s big smokehouses from around the 19th century. Trump called his obsession with the war on drugs “Salvation War on Opium 2.0”. In fact, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, opium and other drugs were so prevalent in the United States that American patriots waged the “First War Against Opium” ……. Today, we feel that history has returned to the point of origin.
Smartly dressed opium smokers lounge around in an opium den in New York in1925 as the drug craze swept the country
In an opium den in New York in 1925.
Fashionably dressed white opium smokers in a daze
New York in 1910
A dismal-looking white woman gazes at an opium pipe.
Her marriage was completely ruined by Big Tobacco.
1926 in New York
Four affluent white women
Lying next to a visibly intoxicated Asian man
This man held them captive with opium.
Two women and one man of different races in 1890.
Smoking cigarettes in an opium house in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Two white women in 1899
Lying in one of the more exclusive opium clubs in New York.
Silk upholstered bed to linger on
A woman in San Francisco at the beginning of the 20th century
Smoking Opium in Your Own Lavishly Decorated Bedroom
The Great Smokehouse of New York, 1923
Middle-class white women get together to smoke opium.
The Garden Explains: On the battlefield of drugs, Trump fought and lost like a Don Quixote, alone. Political correctness and a new generation of Americans dependent on mental and physical stimulation have led to the decriminalization of drugs in every state, most notably decriminalized marijuana, with other states expected to catch up to Oregon’s “progressive” pace in the next few years. In the next few years, other states are expected to catch up with Oregon’s “progressive” pace….
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