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Will any candidate consider moving away from the current model for "dealing with the drug problem", a problem that is rooted in the laws themselves, which admittedly has created a successful "business model", if you are interested in growing the "prison-industrial complex"? Specifically, would you explicitly shift law/policy and budget/expenditure away from the "war on drugs", and apply these savings to education & health care in general (i.e. harm reduction)?

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Will either candidate consider moving away from the current model for "dealing with the drug problem", a problem that is rooted in the laws themselves, which admittedly has created a successful "business model", if you are interested in growing the "prison-industrial complex"? Specifically, would you explicitly shift law/policy and budget/expenditure away from the "war on drugs", and apply these savings to education & health care in general (i.e. harm reduction)?

posted 2 years ago
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