I wonder how much of the general SF street chaos is literally just meth https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MethTaskForce/Meth%20Task%20Force%20Final%20Report_FULL.pdf …pic.twitter.com/DyetLcsLDp
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How do we combat it? If the recovery rate is so low, we need to focus on prevention. Our current drug war doesn't seem to be stopping it and it comes with some terrible unintended consequences. Do you have any ideas?
Focus on prosecuting dealers, and actually make that a priority. There really are parts of SF where you can find & successfully buy whatever you want in broad daylight — I know people who've done it, repeatedly. Focus on substances with great social cost & ignore DEA scheduling.
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Drug scheduling still largely determines the severity of a drug offense — Schedule 1 is the most egregious, a category that *does not* contain methamphetamines but *does* include marijuana & LSD. This is on the grounds that meth has an accepted medical use, but marijuana does not
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Meth can be eradicated the same way qualudes were - the precursor chemical is manufactured by 9 factories in the entire world. Each would follow a ban. Cold medicine companies prevent this ban despite a suitable replacement already on the market.
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Do you have any good links/resources about this? I've always wondered whether it'd be feasible to get the components off the market entirely
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This is something I'm keenly interested in because where I live we also have a meth problem. Could you point me to an example where they have done this successfully so I can look how they did it?
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