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How Brazil’s War on Drugs Replicates Failed Policies in the United States – The Global African

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR This episode of The Global African features Dr. Carl Hart, neuroscientist at Columbia University, on how the Brazilian government has implemented repressive drug laws that ultimately repeat the same mistakes made in the U.S. - In the second half of the show Mr. Fletcher covers new changes to the Rwandan Constitution that could mean that President Kagame ends up staying on until 2034. What i s driving the push for this term extension?

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November 19, 2015 – Issue 630

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How Brazil’s War on Drugs Replicates Failed Policies In the United States

Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR

This episode of The Global African features Dr. Carl Hart, neuroscientist at Columbia University, on how the Brazilian government has implemented repressive drug laws that ultimately repeat the same mistakes made in the U.S. – In the second half of the show Mr. Fletcher covers new changes to the Rwandan Constitution that could mean that President Kagame ends up staying on until 2034. What i s driving the push for this term extension?

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