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One of the countless myths underlying the war on drugs is that people who sell drugs are violent. We’re told in school, by the media, or by law enforcement that people who sell drugs, even marijuana, areaggressive predators motivated by profit who will do anything, including resort to violence, to promote and protect their product.
Stoking these fears is, at best, outdated and unjustified, and at worst, deliberately deceptive and dangerous.
Research shows that selling drugs is often a temporary venture, one that’s undertaken by individuals struggling to survive in order to supplement their income or their own drug use. Rather than being a cause of urban decline, selling drugs is often a direct response to that urban decline and the disappearance of a sustainable employment market. The constant in the life of the average person who sells drugs is not violence, but poverty.
Yet when police...
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