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.
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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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