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The war on drugs lost this election. Now what?


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One in three Americans now live in a state with legal recreational marijuana, and that wasn’t the only big drug story on Election Day. Oregon voted to decriminalize possession of hard drugs and legalized medical use of magic mushrooms. On today’s show, Beau Kilmer, director of Rand Corp.’s Drug Policy Research Center, will make us smart about the country’s growing patchwork of legalization and how it could reshape the drug economy.

Here’s everything we talked about today (if these links don’t work, check out the episode page on makemesmart.org):

This Election, a Divided America Stands United on One Topic” from The New York Times

1 in 3 Americans now lives in a state where recreational marijuana is legal” from Politico

Zuckerberg, Dorsey Tout Progress in Combating Political Misinformation” from the Wall Street Journal

This Twitter account that shows the top-ten best-performing Facebook posts of the day

No, This Election Did Not Go ‘Smoothly‘” from Slate

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