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Bar none. why? there was a drug war raging there in part to satisfy the appetite for illegal drugs in this country, in part due to our prohibitionary incarceration first policy that had created such a premium on crossing those drugs that kids were literally willing to die or to kill one another for the privilege of crossing something here into the united states. i thought we owed ourselves, as a country, our sister city of ciudad juarez, a conversation on the best way forward. now, that resolution or that amendment that i offered was inartful at best. what i was trying to get to was marijuana, the cornerstone of the drug trade economy, and to clarify the position, and anyone can look this up, susie byrd, my colleague on the city council and i wrote an entire book on the subject and what we focus on is marijuana policy from the perspective of the front lines of the drug war and communities like this one and communities like el paso and talk about an ....

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