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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “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…”

On the recordJune 18, 2019
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?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez questions the shift from treatment to criminalization in drug policy.

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