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21. The media certainly isn't just blindly focused on more cops and longer sentences
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 10:54 PM
Oct 2017

That's part of it, but there's definitely far less hostility to users now that they're white.

Then it didn't affect white upper middle class families blueinredohio Oct 2017 #1
This...exactly yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #14
We were right here ignoring it because we dont live in the inner cities, we dont have Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #2
I was around when Keith Haring did Crack is Wack Not Ruth Oct 2017 #3
Where I live ( despite being a red county ) the starbucks here give the homeless a free cup of Doreen Oct 2017 #26
I have never seen a Starbucks give free coffee to the homeless Not Ruth Oct 2017 #29
We never have those problems here. I live in a small town and as far as getting clean our Doreen Oct 2017 #33
I can't get out of my head the 2 very young pretty blond white women on the edge of Motley13 Oct 2017 #4
What are you referring to, exactly? WinkyDink Oct 2017 #28
here is the article Motley13 Oct 2017 #32
I have been saying the same thing for over a year BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #5
They were and probably still are the "users" who have moved up the economic ladder and have now coolsandy Oct 2017 #30
legal pot reduces opiate deaths questionseverything Oct 2017 #34
Its bitter sweet tulipsandroses Oct 2017 #6
Thank you for what you do...and for your incredible insight Docreed2003 Oct 2017 #17
Welcome to DU, tulipsandroses ! KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #20
Thank you both for your warm welcome tulipsandroses Oct 2017 #22
Double thank you for your service to fellow humans. Nice your are here. coolsandy Oct 2017 #31
Crack crisis involved potential Democratic voters. This opioid crisis applegrove Oct 2017 #7
Bingo! Turbineguy Oct 2017 #9
Or get into crime to support their habit and go to jail. Become a felon applegrove Oct 2017 #11
If my memory serves me right madokie Oct 2017 #8
Nailed it malaise Oct 2017 #16
they were counting their money. mopinko Oct 2017 #10
Crack was so widespread it was on the radar. JNelson6563 Oct 2017 #12
Why, they were clammoring for tougher laws and more police, of course! unblock Oct 2017 #13
who is saying anything different now? right here on DU people are calling for the exact TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #19
The media certainly isn't just blindly focused on more cops and longer sentences unblock Oct 2017 #21
They were building private prisons malaise Oct 2017 #15
the response is just as ass-backwards; more War on Drugs. it was completely counter- TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #18
that was treated as a criminal issue, not a health crisis Skittles Oct 2017 #23
Gittin' rich off drug company stocks! moondust Oct 2017 #24
My (white) family was always somewhere around the dividing line between poverty and barely making it LeftyMom Oct 2017 #25
You don't get it! Our very dirty little secret is that the US PROFITS FROM street drugs! Opioids WinkyDink Oct 2017 #27
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