We have outlawed these substances. The demand has not gone away.

It's gone underground into the black market. It's far more dangerous.

We've destroyed the lives of users who feel like they can't do it in a safe way.

I think this is just a condemnation of the aggressive war on drugs and just further proof that that doesn't work.

This is one of those areas where federalism could work to our advantage and where different states can implement different policies. We could see which work and which don't. And then other states can pick those up. Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. I'm Corey Bred and I'm Rakeesh Laugh. Well, Corey is a lot happening in the world today. Where are going to start?

Well, we're going to start here in America. Americans are dying from drug overdoses at alarming record high levels. We'll discuss the fentanyl crisis and what can be done about it. Elon must bid to purchase Twitter is getting stalled by bots, or at least that's what he claims. The ACT says

grades are going up

while test scores are staying the same. We'll ask Principal Ravi if that's a problem, and American

mothers are struggling with a very specific shortage, baby formula. We'll get into how that happened

and all the political uproar surrounding it. But first things first, we began on a tragic

note in Buffalo, where a racist mass shooting has shaken a nation. An 18-year-old white man is accused

of targeting a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood. Shooting and killing 10 people,

all of them black, another three were wounded,

two of them were white, but authorities immediately began investigating this shooting as a hate

crime, largely because of a white supremacist manifesto, the suspected gunman posted online.

Now, the shooting is bringing fresh scrutiny to a conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement,

which will explain in greater detail as we get into all of this, but the basic facts here are truly

horrifying.

The suspect is thought to have driven over 200 miles just to get to this store, where he

opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon, which reportedly had

the N-word written on the barrel. The shooter managed to live stream his rampage for about the

first two minutes, echoing the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand back in 2019. The whole thing

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