"You should not have to be arrested in order to access treatment, and treatment should not happen under the threat of incarceration."
-Lindsay Lasalle of @DrugPolicyOrg during our summit's first panel on the Intersection of Behavioral Health and the Criminal Legal System in SF
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Replying to @chesaboudin @DrugPolicyOrg
How much harder is it for addicts to get clean if drug dealers are right there to supply, and that temptation is so readily available? Shouldn't that be obvious, if the goal isn't to protect drug trafficking?
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That’s a perfect argument for decriminalization. Let’s get it off of the streets and into stores and bars, and provide safe injection sites. Problem solved. Just like alcohol.
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Replying to @SubaruTrap @TheUnsaid11 and
Paul Retweeted John Hamasaki
How much harder is it to get clean when locked up with users and drug pushers?https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1402336179702226947?s=19 …
Paul added,
John Hamasaki @HamasakiLawOne other point this illustrates is the futility of the supply-side focus of the Drug War. If police can't keep drugs out of heavily, heavily secured facilities, what makes you think that after 50 years of trying, billions in policing, it will work now? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-07/opioid-overdoses-sheriff-narcan-jails …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @netfire4 @SubaruTrap and
no: Prosecute traffickers, treat addicts. re: Decriminalize since it still happens (binary thinking) That's the "Why have laws and enforcement if crime happens?" argument. Why try to punish murderers & rapists if it still happens?pic.twitter.com/0XXSaNLw6W
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Replying to @TheUnsaid11 @netfire4 and
I’m fine with that as long as we first lock up the almost 10,000,000 housed addicts. Then we can get to the 250k homeless. Because guess what, THEY GET THEIR DRUGS FROM THE SAME PLACE.
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Replying to @SubaruTrap @TheUnsaid11 and
They are also the same.drugs, just due to the iron law of http://prohibition.in a more potent and dangerous to handle form.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition#:~:text=The%20iron%20law%20of%20prohibition,%2C%20the%20harder%20the%20drugs.%22 …
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Replying to @netfire4 @SubaruTrap and
What's going on & happened, completely discredits that. Addicts gain tolerance & seek more potent opiods to get that high. Also cannabis legalization promoted more potent products, and teen usage increases despite restrictions due to easier supply.https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/29/cannabis-industry-next-war-485044 …
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I don’t support limits but labeling is effective. That’s the benefit of decriminalization. Weed has always increased in THC content. The increase in percentage from Columbian Gold to Sinsemilla was way higher.
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