"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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Paul Retweeted Julian Buchanan PhD
The argument isn't only that enforcement is completely ineffective at reducing the availability of drugs, it also that in systematic review more enforcement provably makes things more violenthttps://twitter.com/julianbuchanan/status/1407510229764370434?s=19 …
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