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May We All, As A Nation Of Believers, Fight For The Achievement Of America, May We Make Sacrifices Worthy Of Those Proud Men And Women Who Fought For Us, Labored For Us, Bled Soil From The Beaches Of Normandy To The Fields Of Gettysburg For Us.

I Do Not Believe That Marijuana Is A Gateway Drug, And Having Been A Mayor Trying To Keep My Community Safe, If There Was Any Drug That Was Driving Violence, More Than Marijuana, It Was Alcohol Which Is Legal. And So I Just Don't Think This Is A Gateway Drug. And By The Way, If You Regulate It You're Actually Going To Overcome A Lot Of Problems With People Having To Go To The Streets To Buy Their Drug. You Don't Know How Dangerous That Is.

We Have Had In Our Nation A Well-celebrated Declaration Of Independence. But Our Success As A Country Will Depend Upon A New 'declaration Of Inter-dependence.' A Belief In How Much We Need Each Other, How Much We Share One Common Destiny.

We Started America With The Sin Of Slavery That Led Right Into The Post-reconstruction Period Which Was The Greatest Period Of Domestic Terrorism In Our Country's History. Then After That, We Had Jim Crow Emerge And Just When The Jim Crow Laws Were Ending Came The Onslaught Of The Drug War. Well, The Drug War Has So Perniciously Effected, Insidiously Infected Communities Of Color That In Some Ways It Has Come Full Circle, And We Now Have More African Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of The Slaves In 1865. This Is A Profoundly Unjust War.

2016 Is An Election Like I've Never Seen Before. And I Think It Reflects The Fact That Many People Have A Dissatisfaction With Politics As Usual. So I Think This Is A Time Where Both Parties Should Be Humble, Reach Out To Each Other And Try To Find Ways To Build On Common Ground To Serve The Concerns, The Rightful Frustrations Of The American People.