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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Illegal drugs have been around forever and are not the fault of any one political party or presidential administration.

I spent a fair amount of time in the trenches as a prosecutor, and saw close up how drug war funding fuels aggressive policing but doesn’t create any real positive outcomes in the community.

We will never solve the problem of drugs - I’m sure humans have been finding ways to get high since they lived in caves.

We should redirect massive amounts of funding from interdiction to addiction prevention and treatment programs, with a very heavy emphasis on building a much bigger and better capacity for mental health services across the board. Most addicts have trauma and are self medicating. Half of all children experience some kind of violence in childhood. Many of the judgy mcjudgertons on this board who rail against drug use are drinking too much, eating too much, sex addicted, etc. as ways of dealing with their own unresolved MH problems.

We’d accomplish more by building a more compassionate society, but that’s not a winning campaign slogan so of course it won’t fly.[/quote]

Everywhere decriminalization has been tried it’s been a disaster. You can’t make people go to treatment. Maybe we should have laws that make it easier to commit people with untreated mental illness, but the principal foes of that are the same people who are pushing for decriminalization.  Enabling disguised as “compassion is not a kindness. [/quote]

It’s progressives operating in an imaginary world of “what I wish it was” rather than “what it is.” They do this all the f’ing time, the consequences are always disastrous, & they never learn from it.

Migrants, come on in; defund cops; no cash bail; giving drugs to addicts; letting protesters “blow off steam”; being nice to Iran; on & on & on.[/quote]

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