The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a … - Ayelet Waldman

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Ayelet Waldman

The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

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