Yes we should. And for starters SF has a higher fentanyl death rate than east and Midwest cities
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @the_watcher and
Our failed and counter-producctive system of prohibition is driving overdoses partially because its prohibiition of safer less potent substances drives opiate users to more potent fentanyl.
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Replying to @netfire4 @the_watcher and
You want to simultaneously claim crime is down and that our policies have failedpic.twitter.com/qAuqsJUXUl
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Paul Retweeted Prison Policy Init.
Other than general racism, and that seeing poor people makes you really really really uncomfortable, there can be no possible justification for why we need to incarcerate an order of magnitude more people than our European peers.
#EndMassIncarcerationhttps://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPolicy/status/1435634041353486346 …Paul added,
Prison Policy Init.Verified account @PrisonPolicyNEW: Here is the 2021 update to our “States of Incarceration” report, comparing incarceration rates in U.S. states to 169 countries around the world: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html … 24 states, when viewed as countries, have the highest incarceration rate *in the world.* pic.twitter.com/tXBlyeOqpF2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @netfire4 @3Sentinel4 and
Paul is not me, and while we agree on the need to end Drug Prohibition, we disagree on some other things.
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Replying to @the_watcher @netfire4 and
We hardly have some extreme drug prohibition going on these days. But even the most drug friendly countries do no allow open air drug markets and use
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @netfire4 and
Do you mean in the US, in California or in SF? If you mean the latter I agree with you. It seems reasonable that decriminalizing opiates in one city only would make us a magnet for drug abusers.
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I mean in the US. The number of prisoners incarcerated for non violent drug offenses is a small minority. Only SF allows open black markets
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Replying to @3Sentinel4 @the_watcher and
Its actually a huge portion, larger than that of property crime. Prohibition has been proven both ineffective, and ultimately counterproductive, exacerbating lawlessness, addition, overdoses, and violence in our community.
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Only 20 percent of prisoners in the United States are serving time for drug offenses. The number of prisoners that politicians are willing to consider "low-level, nonviolent" drug offenders is far smaller
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Paul Retweeted John Hamasaki
That *Only 20%* represents a greater portion of our population than any other first world country imprisons worldwide for all reasons.
#Prohibition, this excessive #PoliceState & #MassIncarceration have been proven counterproductive, exacerbate violence!https://mobile.twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1436497301833277444 …
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