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The items in our 420 bundle are natural best buds. It’s past time we end the failed war on drugs. Find it at https://t.co/arylru8SUv 🍃 https://t.co/6nYdLTInB8 — PolitiTweet.org

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REMINDER: Despite legalization in a number of states, arrest rates have actually risen in the past few years, with almost 100,000 more arrests in 2018 than 2015. https://t.co/StekUthgKM — PolitiTweet.org

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Right now the Biden administration can begin to right the wrongs of the war on drugs by commuting the sentences of people currently incarcerated for drug possession. Send a message now. https://t.co/gOncq2AMFA — PolitiTweet.org

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The Biden administration can end the war on drugs once and for all, closing the book on a half-century of law enforcement wreaking havoc in our communities. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden and VP Harris have a responsibility to those impacted to end this failed war. The polling is clear: People across the political spectrum want to end the war on drugs. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's been 50 years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." Since then, hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into law enforcement leading to the incarceration of millions of people — disproportionately Black — while doing nothing to prevent drug overdoses. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chasestrangio: Good decisions won't save us and bad decisions won't stop us. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidColeACLU: Exactly right. And that bottom line means there is no First Amendment license to discriminate. That's why all the libe… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RiaTabaccoMar: Doctrinally, Fulton is a nothingburger. That doesn’t make it any less painful that so many believe kids would be better… — PolitiTweet.org

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In the wake of this decision, Congress must now listen to an overwhelming majority of voters and pass the Equality Act, to update our civil rights laws to ensure explicit protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. https://t.co/zrmyybmQ2z — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's decision does NOT create a right for other taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to discriminate. LGBTQ people are just as qualified to be foster parents as anyone else. There is no reason our families should be turned away from fostering children. — PolitiTweet.org

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Discrimination should have no place in our foster care system. Children's lives and well-being are at stake. And children are the ones who are hurt the most when religious beliefs, rather than their best interests, govern foster care placements. — PolitiTweet.org

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We're disappointed in the specific result in this case, but what's important is that the court did NOT recognize a license to discriminate based on religious beliefs. State and local governments may continue to enforce laws protecting LGBTQ people and others from discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court today ruled that Philadelphia couldn't refuse to renew Catholic Social Services' foster care contract because of language in this specific contract. It's a very narrow ruling. — PolitiTweet.org

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We have a decision in Fulton v City of Philadelphia — our case involving a taxpayer-funded child welfare program that wants to discriminate against same-sex couples. Our legal team is currently reviewing the decision. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's time to end the government's violent, racist, and ineffective drug war. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's time to break the cycle of the war on drugs. We need federal action, including: ✅ clemency ✅ legalization ✅ the end of police militarization — PolitiTweet.org

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The war on drugs has failed — and it has failed our communities. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today, drug arrests account for 25% of the people locked up in the US. Every 25 seconds, a person is arrested for possessing drugs for personal use. — PolitiTweet.org

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People dealing with substance dependency face barriers to healthcare, employment, housing, and education. Access to comprehensive treatment is rare. The fear that a person will suffer criminal penalties if they call an ambulance to help someone overdosing is killing people. — PolitiTweet.org

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We cannot keep relying on policing as a path to substance dependency prevention or treatment. It is causing adverse health effects, not preventing them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Crack and powder cocaine are simply two forms of the same drug. Yet, inaccurate and racist perception of their differences has led to much higher sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine. By 2010, 85% of people sentenced on crack cocaine charges were Black. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the criminal legal system, policies such as discriminatory sentencing disparities, mandatory minimums, and racial profiling have incentivized punitive inequities, locking up Black and Brown people for longer periods of time at higher rates. — PolitiTweet.org

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79% of SWAT deployments were for the purpose of executing search warrants, most commonly in drug investigations in which no one has yet been accused of a crime. SWAT raids were the cause of the deaths of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and Aiyana Jones in Detroit. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 50 years since 1971, the war on drugs has poured millions of dollars into law enforcement agencies and led to deadly police violence and abuse, largely in communities of color. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John Erlichman, advisor to President Richard Nixon — PolitiTweet.org

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Nixon advisor John Erlichman said openly, "We couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities..." — PolitiTweet.org

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The war on drugs wasn't an unintended consequence of well-intentioned policy — it was and is a war on people. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a direct consequence of the war on drugs, the US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign wars and domestic incarceration. Comparatively few resources have been used to address overdoses and substance dependency. — PolitiTweet.org