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The Drug War.

It's winding down and heating up all at the same time.

States are legalizing recreational weed,

including in California,

where the medicinal pot market has long already allowed most

anyone to secure the herb to treat whatever might be ailing them.

Meanwhile, prosecutors around the country are charging dealers, including quite small time ones, with

murder when their drugs contribute to someone else's fatal overdose.

In Washington, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has instructed U.S.orneys to go to the max on severe

mandatory minimum sentences overturning a change made by Eric Holder Obama's

first AG. And so even as harm reduction strategies like supervised injection sites and decriminalization

take root in some countries, drug warriors in the United States, especially on the federal

level, are still charging forth full force.

In a real end to the drug war, which would require the legalization and regulation of drugs from

MDMA and LSD to cocaine and heroin remains off the table amongst

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