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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Almost everywhere in California, open alcohol sales, marijuana sales, tobacco and caffeine sales and consumption is widespread and ignored by the police.
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For alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, they are legal. Any black markets in those are shut down
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Whey are they legal and mushrooms are illegal? Seems pretty arbitrary to me. Tobacco kills more than all other combined. Alcohol is a strong second. Fentanyl is a small fraction, almost a rounding error.
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They are regulated, controlled and taxed. This is very different from allowing dangerous substances to be sold and used on the street, things even countries which decriminalize drugs don't allow
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Legalize them all. Stop treating citizens like children, it doesn’t work. But I know that’s utopian.
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Even if you legalize it you don't allow black market transactions of dangerous drugs and open use in public spaces near where families live
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Most of the problems with drugs are due to prohibition. Look how easy marijuana legalization has gone. Yes, it should be sold away from schools and playgrounds. But the nuisance value would go way down too.
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I don't think that's most of the problems. we don't even incarcerate many people on nonviolent drug offenses. The big problem is that those drugs kill a lot of people when allowed to be dealt and used widely, as we see with fentanyl.
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20% of the people in jail are there on drug crimes, mostly possession with intent to sell. This is larger than the entire prison population of all but two counties.
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Then add in all the extra interactions which lead to jail time or worse because racist cops have an excuse to harass people.
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