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- Nathan Denzin: Across the board,
Black people in Wisconsin suffer disproportionately
from bad health and/or barriers to health care.
Black children in the state are four times more likely
to have lead poisoning than their white peers.
Also in Wisconsin,
Black people die younger than almost all other races,
and Black women are far more likely to die during pregnancy
or in childbirth than white women.
The statistics are so bad for Black people that in 2019,
Milwaukee County declared racism a public health crisis.
- We can say all health disparities
both to the school kias well as to their community
and that walking route really shifted for them.
- Nathan: That shift brought healthy change
and access to opportunity in the children's lives
who now felt safe enough to walk to school every day.
- It's good to become aware; it's better to actually
transform that into actual actionable items.
What are you specifically going to do?
- Nathan: For Here & Now, I'm Nathan Denzin.
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FOR SOME YEARS NOW SINCE THE
DISPENSARIES OPENED UP, THAT
THAT WAS THE QUICKEST ACCESS
POINT FOR ILLEGAL WEED FOR CLOSE
TO A MILLION RESIDENTS OF
WISCONSIN.
>> SO FAR, MOST PEOPLE PULLED
OVER WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF
DISPENSARY MARIJUANA HAVE
AVOIDED ARREST.
INSTEAD, THEY LIKELY RECEIVE A
CITATION AND THE CONFISCATION OF
THEIR PURCHASE.
>> THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A TRIAGE
APPROACH, THERE HAS TO BE IN
THIS LINE OF WORK.
AND SO, YES, IF IT'S A SMALL
AMOUNT OF WEED, THAT MAY BE
TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAT HAPPEN
A SMALL AMOUNT OF HEROIN.
ON APRIL 20th, A MARINETTE
OFFICER SEIZED A BACKPACK FULL
OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA.
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