Trump was right about the drug war ... 27 years ago
By SAL RODRIGUEZ at OC Register
"In a speech delivered at the Miami Herald’s Company of the Year Awards luncheon, Donald Trump condemned the “war on drugs” as “a joke” and called for the legalization of drugs. “We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said. “You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars.” So reported the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on April 14, 1990.
Times change, but, to his credit, Trump was absolutely correct 27 years ago." ...
... "Yet, 27 years later, Trump seems to have abandoned the realization that criminalization and aggressive law enforcement isn’t necessary to relieve social ills — and may, in fact, do more harm than good. He has, instead, adopted rhetoric of “law and order,” pandering to the interests of some in law enforcement willing to disregard constitutional principles in pursuit of dually quixotic and draconian responses to crime and drug use." ...
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