Zero chance @chesaboudin will put these folks in jail.
Zero.https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/1319504244077047809 …
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527 Overdose Deaths YTD
Im gonna toss it out there that ODs are 3x more lethal to the population than covid is atm, which says something about our response to both situations.
Hear @chesaboudin , although drug sales are a substantial portion of what he does and a "huge distraction" from violent cases like these. Our drug war has never been a effective or coherent response, because prohibition doesn't work!
https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1285817800150282241 …pic.twitter.com/3scZtJcn7P
"We can conclude then that the end or purpose of drug laws is to discourage people from engaging in risky activity in which they wish to engage either because they desire the intoxicating effects they associate with the consumption of a drug"1/3 https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1837&context=facpub …
" or because they desire the profit that can be realized by supplying intoxicating drugs to others.15 The means that drug laws employ to accomplish this end is using force against those who would engage in such activities, " 2/4 https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1837&context=facpub …
"Portugal’s policy rests on three pillars: one, that there’s no such thing as a soft or hard drug, only healthy and unhealthy relationships with drugs; " (1/3)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it …
" two, that an individual’s unhealthy relationship with drugs often conceals frayed relationships with loved ones, with the world around them, and with themselves; and three, that the eradication of all drugs is an impossible goal." 3/3https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it …
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