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Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

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The Importance of Recognizing the Relationship Between Drug War and Pharmaceutical Policy

There's this relationship that you're drawing out here between harsh black market or prohibition market repression and weak legal market regulation. You write quote only by shedding the mystification of whiteness can we recognize that the drug war and pharmaceutical policy are connected elements of a single unequal system for providing and regulating psychoactive drugs. What would be the ramifications of recognizing this for the regulatory state for the drug war I mean more broadly for the entire organization of this country?

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