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Welcome back everybody to episode two of bold conversations about race, season two,

and I am one of your hosts Dahlia and I use they

them pronouns and I'm Yvette and I also use they them pronouns for our first three

episodes we recorded live at UCLA,

and we tackled three major topics that

are on the forefront of our organizing.

The first is the war on drugs.

Then we discussed surveillance. And last lastly we spoke about immigration.

So vet can you tell us a little bit more about the war on drugs?

Sure. Well to really understand the modern war on drugs we have to look back at the history of drug use so just a little

brief history I want to make sure it's clear to the audience that drugs have been used for thousands and

thousands of years in spiritual practice and medicine drugs what we would

consider drugs like marijuana have been used for medicinal purposes also

psychodelics throughout Latin America like Bayote like Ayahuasca have been used in indigenous ceremony.

So modern criminalization of these drugs

goes hand in hand with colonialization and imperialism and

here in the Americas and throughout the world.

Starting from laws against Chinese immigrants

that were the first anti-opium laws in the 1870s,

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