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Not only can't we talk about it, but we can't think about it because thinking leads to behaviors.

And if those behaviors are risky, out goes your career.

That's right.

That's right.

It's crazy and extremely tragic.

And let me take that narrative thread that you just brought in and let's go all the way back to the times when the Spanish were colonizing this country.

It was actually part of the program to destroy the medicine and women, medicine men and medicine women wisdom keepers, which directly connects, I believe, to the war on drugs.

It's gone on forever, right?

And they went into hiding.

Let's bring that thread all the way to the present.

And I want to see if I can succeed at making this point.

And it has now hijacked law enforcement.

It has hijacked law enforcement.

And it moves law enforcement away from protecting and serving life, liberty, pursuit of happiness in the First Amendment religious expression into industry interest profits.

without us even knowing it.

I'm not pointing a finger at any one law enforcement professional.

I'm challenging people to wake up to what's going on.

Because when we kick in doors and arrest black and brown people for having a relationship with a plant like cannabis and charge them and put them in a cage and lock them up and they weren't doing anything violent, we have to ask, who is this hurting?

And I'm here to tell you,

It's hurting them and us.