Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 2, 2023

Also keep this in mind.

Yes, the drug dealing Sackler Family are paying $6B for illegal Oxycontin distribution & killing ~546K Americans. But not only does no amount of money bring back the dead, the Sacklers are still worth $11B and 0 of them are going to prison for their crimes. $6B is just the Sacklers' cost of doing business.

Meanwhile ~40K disproportionately Black & brown people who killed no one—ARE in prison for cannabis.

The system ain't broken—it was built this way.

Show threadStuart Celarier ❌👑

@QasimRashid Nixon's War on Drugs was thinly veiled racism. Ehrlichman was Nixon's domestic policy chief.

"Ehrlichman said in 1994 that the drug war was a ploy to undermine Nixon's political opposition — meaning, black people and critics of the Vietnam War."
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon

Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies

"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

Vox
Jun 17, 2023 at 2:47pmWeb