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Efforts around police accountability, catalyzed by the Movement for Black Lives, have been halted, and replaced with efforts to target and simultaneously inflate the problem of "illegal" immigration and drug trafficking, all the while militarizing local police departments and emboldening officers to use the full force of the law to continue criminalizing people of color.
While I am terrified of cities and states cutting the budgets of programs that help low-income families and families of color, I'm equally afraid of efforts to increase taxes and revenues to city and state governments that will use the money to continue criminalizing communities of color.
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But the alternative -- to do nothing, or to pass new industry-backed legislation -- would continue to criminalize the everyday behavior of millions.
In those states that continue to criminalize plants, marijuana prohibition and the drug war in general is still a perfect example of unnatural government and corporate reactions to select natural plants such as cannabis.
And as Lessig explains on the show, it's counterproductive to continue to criminalize kids for file-sharing, remixing and recreating with content.
As the bill and proposed amendments stand today, we are headed down a path that will continue to criminalize immigrants and mandate wholesale lock up and deportation.
"As you continue to criminalize behavior and add more behaviors onto the books, your incarceration rate only goes one way," said Lyman, "and that's through the roof".
Seventy-six continues contonue to criminalize same sex relationships, and most still lack effective anti-discrimination laws that protect LGBT people from unfair treatment.
At the end of 2015, 78 jurisdictions worldwide continue to criminalize sexual relations between same-sex adults, while at least 22 countries have now legalized gay marriage.
Current UN drug treaties maintain that the "health and welfare of mankind" is their primary objective, but it is clear that this cannot be achieved if governments continue to criminalize, stigmatize, penalize and incarcerate people who use drugs.
All of these calls were in light of the fact that Sri Lanka remains amongst the 78 jurisdictions worldwide that continue to criminalize same-sex sexual relations between consenting adults.
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