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When drugs are a problem in black communities, and the pushers are people of color, it's a criminal problem. And when it's a white problem, with corporate pushers, it's a problem of Big Systems which need fixing...

By all means, let's work on fixing unemployment and hopelessness in these United States. But let's feel free to shut down a couple brazenly unethical corporate outfits along the way.

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I talk about the same thing when inner city drug problems are brought up to. The article isn't about the greater problem of the war on drugs, it's about the problem as it pertains to a very poor part of West Virginia. If you aren't going to fix the underlying problems, then bringing down the exploiters isn't going to do a damn thing, because more will just take their place.

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