#THEWARONDRUGS has always been a #waronthepoor... they passed The Rockefeller Law to over-sentence millions for selling drugs Then they used #regentrification as a justification to take back the neighborhoods that were flooded with Government sponsored drugs. The prescription pill mill pushers sponsored #legislation to help them peddle pharmaceuticals to children yet the prison sentences are epidemically issued to black men and children in possession of drugs. I wonder why people that look like me get a 20 year sentence for selling drugs yet they publish articles of white collar criminals forecasting to make billions off of selling the same drugs? I wonder why the war on drugs makes no sense to me, I wonder what's the difference between a methadone clinic and a #dispensary... I wonder why #marijuana is considered illegal; yet #tobacco has been killing people for centuries... I blame the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, and a few Presidents of the USA for the overflow of drugs in the community. I view #THENEWJIMCROW and quote unquote #COINTELPRO as campaigns of genocide, why did the #AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil wage war against Black and Brown communities? How you don't see the #criminaljusticesystem as #SLAVERYBYANOTHERNAME? The Corrections Corporation of America has turned burying our brothers and sisters behind bars into a billion dollar industry. #mypoemsarenotpoems... This is a crash course in civics, CoreCivic is basically burying African descendants alive; how is the prison industrial complex considered an industry? The capitalist on Capitol Hill believe private prisons are better than public schools, are kidding me?! Pay attention, they're cutting school budgets yet steadily building prisons, that school to prison pipeline is really a thing. Inmates generate more income than students in the grand scheme of things. But what do I know? I'm not creative enough to coin phrases like #THETRUTHISNTTHETRUTH and #ALTERNATIVEFACTS. I didn't need an MBA from Harvard to see the profit potential in marijuana; in fact, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton mandated tough on crime laws for that. -Stevie #MARIJUANAJUSTICEACT #poem | #Reaganomics revisited https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOfo1_hUUY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ccmiyxo0qu09