Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
I might agree with you to a point. Legalization of marijuana, and certain types of psychoactive mushrooms could decrease violence. Other drugs like meth not so much. Any decrease in violence would be offset by the increase in harm it would cause people. No two drugs are alike.
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"Portugal’s policy rests on three pillars: one, that there’s no such thing as a soft or hard drug, two, unhealthy relationships with drugs often conceals frayed relationships and three, that the eradication of all drugs is an impossible goal."https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it …
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"I now explain why using force against people who wish to use intoxicants inevitably harms them, harms the general public, and harms the legal system. " https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1837&context=facpub …
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"Pew poll found that roughly two-thirds of respondents believe that people should no longer be prosecuted for possession of drugs like cocaine or heroin.22" https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2016/Contributions/Civil/DrugPolicyAlliance/DPA_Fact_Sheet_Approaches_to_Decriminalization_Feb2015_1.pdf …
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The problem is we're not doing any of that. We're arresting and releasing drug offenders and sellers into diversion programs that don't exist. Which does nothing for them, it endangers innocent people, and kills drug abusers. The decriminalization of drug abuse hasn't worked here
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