The people most affected by [the War on Drugs] are black and brown and poor. It’s the abandoned inner cores of our urban areas. And, as we said before, economically, we don’t need those people. The American economy doesn’t need them. So, as long as they stay in their ghettos, and they only kill each other, we’re willing to pay a police presence to keep them out of our America. And to let them fight over scraps, which is what the drug war effectively is.

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