The War On Drugs revisited

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opportunity school districts, reaganomics, rockefeller drug laws, schools not prisons, sociology, the war on drugs, white collar crime

#rockefellerdruglaws

#thewarondrugs [eh hmm #thewaronthepoor]

#sociology

#whitecollarcrime [#privatizedprisons, #capitalists on #capitolhill, #mandatoryminimum & #threestrikelaws, #commodifiedconvictions, the #GEOgroup & the #correctionscorporationofamerica, and #reaganomics]

#unequaleducation [#elementaryandsecondaryeducationact, #nochildleftbehindact, #HB133 – #OSD: #opportunityschooldistricts , #ADD & #ADHD #misdiagnosis]

WAKE UP & WISE UP:
#noHB133 #noOSD;
it’s another legal opportunity to destroy the community,
the capitalists are reinventing legislation to allow them to capitalize off of the community.

THE WAR ON DRUGS has allowed the corporations to push pharmaceuticals from cubicles.

They have been peddling Ritalin to children,
lobbying the doctors to doctor you up with prescriptions.

They misdiagnose and overwrite prescriptions
cause their money multiplies when they prescribe your addictions.

They have been cutting school budgets and building prisons
cause they make money off of the inmates in prison.

When your lack of education becomes a crippling affliction,
the good folks behind the war on drugs will be there to sell you methadone and methamphetamines to soothe your addiction.

The war on drugs has increased the incarceration rates,
Blacks & Latinos have been incarcerated at epidemic rates.

The war on drugs has allowed the prescription pill mills to grow at alarming rates,
the FDA approves oxycontin for children in the United States.

Meanwhile rapists and killers have done less time than drug dealers in the United States…
and World Wars have had less casualties than the drug war of the United States.

World Wars have had less casualties than the drug war of the United States.
World Wars have had less casualties than the drug war of the United States.

–@StevieStreets #blacklivesmatter | The War On Drugs revisited

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Needle Marks in the Park

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heroin epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

Syringes, Zombies,

Morphine Metamorphoses;

Heroin Abuse…

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE HEROIN IS HELL COLLECTION: Needle Marks in the Park [a still life impression of the heroin epidemic]

The War On Drugs

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crack epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

The government declared a war on drugs.

 

Rockefeller laws were imposed to crack down on heroin.

 

AIDS premiered and crack became the new heroin.

 

Are we ever gonna win the war on drugs?

 

 

Nah; they don’t wanna win the war on drugs.

 

The drug business was commodified;

illegal business is big business in America.

 

Jails were privatized;

the prison system is a billion dollar industry in America.

 

Governments fare well off of the war on drugs.

 

 

They told you to “SAY NO TO DRUGS”

as central intelligence smuggled drugs into the United States.

 

They established the “RICO ACT” to prosecute the mafia,

as the war on drugs became the biggest racket in the United States.

 

Capitalists on capitol hill lobbied for the GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America,

as mandatory minimum and three-strike laws increased the incarceration rates.

 

 

I wonder what they thought when Washington DC became the “MURDER CAPITAL”

as the president of the free world conspired with gun runners & drug smugglers to fund secret ops,

back when the crack epidemic was labeled endemic to the have nots.

 

I wonder what they thought as the “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” began to unfurl;

this is for the babies that were born addicted to ready rock,

this is dedicated to those that are still suffering from shell shock.

 

I remember how “THE WAR ON DRUGS” left urban areas looking like a third world;

this is for the P.O.Ws, this is for the nonviolent offenders that are still confined to a cell block,

this is dedicated to the families and communities that were ravaged by the infestation of crack rock.

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE CRACK ERA COLLECTION: The War On Drugs

 

Accumulation by Dispossession

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crack epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

Gentrification,

Housing Privatization;

Neighborhood Cleanup.

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE CRACK ERA COLLECTION: Accumulation by Dispossession

 

Survival

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crack epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

I grew up around dope fiends and dust heads;

I’m from where the hearts are cold and the eyes are blood red.

 

Where the clouds were black and the garden was bloodshed.

 

I’m from where children were sent to corner stores to get a dollar worth of cold cuts – “make they’re sliced thin”.

 

I grew up in an era when you abided by the credo “snitching is a sin.”

 

I grew up where they found a body over here and a head over there;

but hands and feet were neither here nor there.

 

I’m from where the average household income was less than ten thousand;

I grew up in an era when the police were afraid to police public housing.

 

Where the church preyed on those that prayed through the bible.

 

I’m from where there’s only one rule in the jungle – SURVIVAL.

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE CRACK ERA COLLECTION: Survival

 

 

 

Crack Vial Confetti

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crack epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

It was hell on earth…

crack vial confetti dropped.

The Crack Era Raid!

–@StevieStreets #codeofthestreets | from THE CRACK ERA COLLECTION 

The War on The Poor

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crack epidemic, rockefeller drug laws, sociology, the war on drugs

Contra and Cocaine

Reagan Administration

THE WAR ON THE POOR

–@StevieStreets #codeofthestreets  | from The Crack Era Collection