And not just legislatures. DAs are dusting off long ignored provisions of 80s era homicide statutes to charge accidental OD deaths as murder
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view seems to be if you are not putting the PERSON WHO OVERDOSED in prison, but just some other person, that is "not criminalizing"
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I think you may be right. And underneath that view is the assumption that users/those who OD are like us/human while dealers are not.
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The second paragraph in this Al Baker piece is a great example of what you are saying. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/nyregion/when-opioid-addicts-find-an-ally-in-blue.html …
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I often come back to this Matt Lassiter piece on that-http://www.processhistory.org/impossible-criminals-the-suburban-imperatives-of-americas-war-on-drugs/ …
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ie prior drug wars weren't nec sold as indiscriminate locking up of addicts, often also (purportedly) about targeting shadowy "pushers" etc.
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'dif set of tools' won't help them fill all those for profit prisons, though... how will they and their cronies grow wealthier?
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