District Attorney Chesa Boudin is calling on Mayor London Breed to remedy a “severe” staffing shortage in his office that threatens to harm criminal prosecutions unless key positions are filled.
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Counterintuitively our scientists have shown how "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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"Portugal’s policy rests on three pillars: one, that there’s no such thing as a soft or hard drug, only healthy and unhealthy relationships with drugs;"(1/3)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it …
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Our drug war has been failing <21 yrs “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
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I have wondered how we will get people to Mandatory Rehab under MHSF without using force?
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Here's the thing Paul. Legalizing all drugs is a great theory in a fantasy world. However, even then it needs to be done at a national level. When you do it at a local level, like SF, you become a magnet for junkies and criminality. Looking forward to your move to Oregon.
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