RadioOnFire.com - Jay Z hopes to end the war on drugs by narrating a brand new video that details the history of the policy on drugs that he believes is an “epic fail.”
His voice compliments the artwork of artist Molly Crabapple who illustrates the drug trade and how the use of it has been criminalized over the years. The story beings in 1986 when Jay Z was a young man in Brooklyn witnessing Ronald Reagan’s version of the war on drugs. “Drugs were bad. They fried your brain. And drug dealers were monsters. The soul reason why neighborhoods and major cities were failing,” he says. “No one wanted to talk about Reaganomics and the ending of social safety nets. The defunding of schools and the loss of jobs in cities across America.”
The video also points to a significant increase in the prison population during the 1990s that were directly affected by Ronald Reagan’s “tough on crime” policies. The U.S. has the highest prison population in the world. It also explains how the legalization of recreational marijuana in places like Colorado has brought great economic boom but prohibits people with a criminal record for selling the same drug from entering the market while encouraging hedge funds to wet their beak. Different measures were taken when dealing with crack cocaine and powder cocaine, according to the clip and more people in low-income areas have records because of using marijuana as opposed to kids on college campuses who simply are handed tickets by police.
Source: VladTV
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