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Transcript: ‘There’s Never Been a Drug Law That Wasn’t Tied to Race’
This week on CounterSpin: What this country calls a War on Drugs has never been indiscriminate in its victims. The punitive, interventionist drug policies embraced by a succession of US administrations have hit hardest in communities of color, and, in Latin America, it has been the poor, the indigenous and those outside of power that have borne the brunt of practices, nominally aimed at stopping drug-trafficking, that have only driven corruption and horrific violence.
Are things changing now with this bipartisan shift from criminalization to a more health-driven approach? And will any shift mean anything to those who have been, and continue to be, the victims of what we’re now told is widely understood to be a wrong-headed approach?
We’ll talk about the War on Drugs with asha bandele of Drug Policy Alliance, and also with Laura Carlsen of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy.
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And first, a quick look back at the week’s press, including Sanders’ “white and rural” victories that weren’t, Newsweek‘s reassurances about Trump and FAIR’s study of New York Times anonymity.
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http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/03/24/top-medical-experts-recommend-decriminalize-legalize-regulate-drugs/50797/
You could report on the lack of coverage for this very important medical critique
of the “war on drugs.” Did any networks cover this? Did any networks interview the
authors of the research? Do you have a way of knowing if this report was picked up
by other major newspapers?
Currently (as of 0330 UTC S 2 Apr) the link to the Carlsen audio == the link to the full show == https://fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin160401.mp3 , though the links to the intro and to the Bandele interview are correct. Can this be fixed?