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This article was originally published on Reality Sandwich, and appears here with permission. Drug use is a public health issue, yet in the United States it is treated as a war.  The “War on Drugs” refers to the United States’ domestic and global campaign of drug prohibition, criminalization, policing, military interventions, and policymaking that responds to the issue of drug use with the violence of the state.  Since this declaration of war, federal and state legislatures have incentivized police departments by linking funding to the number of drug arrests, while underfunding program...

And we permit high risk all the time. i mean, if you look at the study of philosophy and religion, that's very risky stuff. there's bad ideas out there. generally, we allow people to eat what they want, and that is very risky, but we do overly concentrate on what people put into their body. to me, it's an issue of liberty. and jeff sessions is not a libertarian at all. and the war on drugs is a totally illegal system. and if you look at history, our government recognized that we don't have the right to regulate the sale of drugs. in 1914 when it passed the harrison act, it was done over taxes....

Philosophy and religion, that's very risky stuff. there's bad ideas out there. generally we allow people to eat what they want and that is very risky but we do overly concentrate on what people put in their bodies. to me it's an issue of liberty and jeff sessions is not a libertarian. he's not a civil libertarian at all, and the war on drugs is a totally illegal system, and if you look at it carefully, our tradition has been that the government recognized that we don't have the right to regulate the sale of drugs. in 1914, when it passed the harrison act, it was taxes, that's how we'll get the...