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Drug Policy

SHRED

(28,136 posts) Wed Aug 9, 2017, 09:49 AM Aug 2017

Sessions just might get the Drug War he wants

Looks like Jeff Sessions will get his way. Drug Wars...the sequel.

This is not good. The entire west coast and many States will resist this and many more rural opioid afflicted communities will suffer and suffering people will go to privatized prisons for profit instead of a well run rehab facility like we should have for our tax dollars instead.
Fear and division.

Good job Republicans. When are you going to grow a pair and stop this nonsense? Where's an adult?

Trump Rebuffs His Opioid Task Force, Declines To Declare State Of Emergency
Instead, the president said we should arrest more people and lock them up for longer.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5989f5bae4b0449ed505daa8?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

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