“Decriminalizing drugs is even more urgent now than in 1972, Postponing decriminalization will only make matters worse, and make the problem appear even more intractable.” --Milton Friedman, 1989, in an open letter to Bill Bennett https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/yablon_daniel.pdf …
Because as I sited in that article above, Vancouver had no deaths in their safe injection sites In placed where these drugs are legal they do not have these problems, there is a many thousand of year safe usage history.
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Hard drugs are not legal in Canada. they have been decriminalized. This is a difference you seem to miss. The entire city of SF is a safe injection site.
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San Francisco, Needs safe injection sites and does not have them. Safe injection sites mean that drug users are off our streets and into medical care, they dont die, they get encouraged to seek treatment and we do not have to deal with them on the street.
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In places where Hard Drugs have been "Decriminalized" there are actually stronger consequences for use and sale than there is in SF... It would be a big step up for SF if like in Portugal for example Dealers face prison time and users are pushed into treatment.
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