So, my question is, how do we move from Nixon's first approach of treating this as a disease to the war on drugs that was unleashed just a few years later, in the 1980's, and waging this war on drugs in communities of color?
Ocasio-Cortez questions the shift from treatment to criminalization in drug policy.
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