Rep. Steve Cohen: The war on drugs has been a terrible mistake

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Rep. Steve Cohen: The war on drugs has been a terrible mistake

Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) called Wednesday on the U.S. House floor for an end to the 40-year war on drugs, which Cohen said had spent trillions of dollars to incarcerate millions of people for non-violent crimes.

“Now don’t get the wrong impression; I’m not suggesting that drug abuse and drug addiction is not a great problem that we must deal with,” he said. “But our approach in treating it as a law enforcement and not as a health matter, a health care issue, has led to prison populations increasing, racial disparities of the greatest source in this nation in the arrest process, and a lost generation of people with no education and no job prospects because those arrests haunt them for the rest of their lives.”

Cohen introduced the Justice Integrity Act to the House in May. The legislation would create an advisory group to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system.
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I saw on the news this morning... Carter was the only president with enough balls to say we should stop the war on drugs, of course he was shouted down but... we need a person like him.
 
WOW, this is acctually a pretty big deal. someone ACTIVE in the government is acctually speaking out about it. NOICE
 
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