We prosecute property crimes every day. For better or worse. And it's far more humane and less expensive to pay restitution than it is to send people to our failed, massively expensive and criminogenic prisons.https://twitter.com/bay_snark/status/1274737205299122178 …
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Replying to @chesaboudin
But what are you going to do about the TL dealers?
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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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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
So you believe criminals should regulate the substance trade?
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The bar owners and alcohol purveyors are socially, legally responsible for their patrons intoxicated behavior. Let opium sellers maintain locations subject to public scrutiny, where they encourage social behavior, and are medically liable for their patrons.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
So you believe the free market will solve the problem?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
Certainly take all the profit out of it. That profit today is being used to buy guns, violence, and lawlessness. I want to spend societies money elsewhere. What we have in San Francisco is hardly my definition of a free market, let legal public comment shape these businesses.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
Markets operate on profits so a free market solution couldn’t take all of the profit. There may be other forms of control over the trade that could work.
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Competition can vastly reduce it however. Certainly enough so, that the reason for violence over it is eliminated. Few people get killed in the tobacco or alcohol trade today, thats what we should emulate.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
Given that alcohol may be the greatest destroyer of lives, my strong assumption is that this is absolutely not the model to be emulated.
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But bar owners buy sound systems, not automatic firearms. They listen to community feedback and care for their patrons. Seems worth emulating to me, prohibition of alcohol certainly wasn't.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
These substances are uniquely life destroying, so I believe there’s another way that should be tried before letting the free market do what its largely done with alcohol.
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