Buttigieg Calls for Drug Legalization Because of ‘Systemic Discrimination’

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BUTTIGIEG: “Well, all of us are implicated in these problems and I take responsibility for everything good, bad, and indifferent that we did in our city. I also take responsibility that arrest rates for black residents in my city on drug charges were lower than in the state and around the country. But, look, that doesn’t get any of us off the hook. Thesis testimony Mick disparates
— disparities are one of the reasons that I am calling not only for us to legalize marijuana but for us to end incarceration as a response to drug possession altogether. Not only that, we have to look at it as we go through the years wherein cars rags has done so much more harm than the offense it was intended to deal with. That means looking at expungements and looking to get back on their feet. Something else we did proactively with measures like ban the box for hiring in the city of South Bend. We’ve got a long way to go. If there’s one thing I’ve learned as mayor, it’s that this entire country needs to come to a reckoning about how the criminal legal system is barely worth the system.”