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I will end the war on drugs. Which means that going forward we see people using drugs or who are addicted to drugs not as a criminal justice challenge but as a public health opportunity. People need help, treatment, support, long term recovery. They don’t need to go to jail or be locked up in prison. We’ll find that we are far more successful in achieving our goals if focus on care and compassion instead of incarceration. I will make sure that those who market these drugs, whether on the black market or out in the open like Purdue, are held accountable for the addiction and deaths that they have caused.

I’ll have a beer from time to time, but I don’t drive if I’ve had a drink.

Let’s keep and improve our nuclear energy portfolio and expand it through investment in next generation nuclear plants. That in addition to other major steps on wind, solar, geothermal, battery storage... regenerative agriculture.. conservation and replanting.. ending all oil and gas on public lands and no new permitting offshore.. will help us get to net zero no later than 2050 and to be half way there by 2030

Nope

1. We have the greatest income and wealth divide since the last gilded age.. it means that too many are working 2 jobs to get by... or aren’t getting by.. we visited Skid Row in LA on tuesday, a lot of people on the streets, a lot of kids on the streets... while there are some in this country who have extraordinary wealth, able to pass it on from one generation to the next... locking in the divide and making it harder for people to move into the middle class. A few ideas: pay people a living wage. One job should be enough. I’ll sign into law a $15/hr minimum wage. Will complement that with a big investment in housing, $400b over the next 10 years, creating 200k new low-moderate income homes a year. Universal healthcare without copays for mental health, primary health, prescription medications or women’s reproductive health. Paid family leave. And then reverse the worst of the trump tax cuts to make sure the wealthiest and corporations are paying their fair share. And lastly, big investment in education — pk-12 public schools and the educators who we depend on, college affordable for all and elevating unions and their ability to provide skills training and apprenticeships.
2. YES on net neutrality.. internet should be a common carrier.. no one should be able to pay more to get their news, entertainment, political views, etc delivered more quickly.. no one, because of a lack of resources, should be stifled from being able to share what they’ve got.. all data traveling at the same speed.. good for freedom of speech, good for innovation, good for small businesses, good for our democracy

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