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Ethan Nadelmann said something interesting and that is that most of the money that goes towards ending the distribution and use of illegal drugs is dispersed into organizations that punish rather than help these people. The United States took it upon itself to be on the war front of the war on drugs, just like it did when it decided it was rational to prohibit alcohol and look how that ended. “There has never been a drug free society”. Our desire for drugs has always reminded the same as our desires for other things like food and sex; whether that be for medical purposes, religious ties or socially. Marijuana and other drugs have always reminded prevalent in our society and in the late 19th century when the drugs that are currently illegal were not, middle aged white women were mostly known for using opioids as a form of pain relievers. Drugs like these didn’t become a problem until the population that were known for using them changed and it was no longer a white people problem. 

I remember listening to this song when it played after listening to N.W.A, and I didn’t know who ll cool J was but the words to the song really made me think and also surprised at the amount of artist that are out there and speak on the criminalization by the police on the communities of color. In the song Illegal Search by ll cool J, he mentions how targeted he feels as black man when the police automatically assumes that he is doing something illegal just because he may “look good”. This indirectly makes the assumption that people of color in urban areas and within marginalized communities, can’t look good or make money without their white counterparts or the police thinking they may be illegally obtaining the goods they have.

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