The Drug War is racist, eliminates opportunities for the poor and breeds violence, the #PoliceState, abortions and more racism
The Drug War is a smash hit! That’s why it continues. I’ve discussed some of the dynamics previously here:
Incentives matter: Ferguson? Police abuse? SWAT teams? Roving gangs with forfeiture powers?
Related data and analysis:
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-prohibition-and-violence
http://www.aei.org/publication/chicagos-gun-violence-can-be-traced-to-drug-prohibition/
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/alcohol-prohibition-was-failure
http://reason.com/archives/2003/01/29/prohibition-violence
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6950
https://www.google.com/search?q=drug+war+racial+impact
https://www.google.com/search?q=black+on+black+crime+linked+to+drug+war
http://www.drugpolicy.org/race-and-drug-war
https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ACF4F34.pdf
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Race_and_Prison#sthash.Na6OnXGT.dpbs
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/24/rand-paul-marijuana-arrests-column/2452259/
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston68.1.html
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/dp_raceanddrugs.pdf
https://www.google.com/search?q=african+american+abortion+rate
Lynn M. Paltrow
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3775786?uid=3738328&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21105197059593
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
http://www.paulreverepress.org/planned_parenthood_culture_of_genocide/
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