Posted on 01/22/2021 12:20:25 PM PST by TedMartin
Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has made good on his promise to begin his effort to “decriminalize all drug use” step by step with the introduction of several bills at the start of the new legislative session.
Senate Bill 57 creates “safe injection sites” where drug addicts can use illicit drugs under medical supervision. Senate Bill 73 lowers the criminal penalties on users and dealers of heroin, opiates or opium derivatives, salts, cannabis, phencyclidine (PCP), and other dangerous drugs.
Still promised, but not yet introduced, is a bill Wiener says will legalize all psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms.
“The War on Drugs and mass incarceration are policy and public health failures,” Wiener said in a recent press release.
But for others, who admit the country’s efforts to curb the use of harmful drugs via law enforcement hasn’t solved the problem, legalizing deadly drugs defies logic. This is especially baffling in California, where state legislators pride themselves on banning products and services that are much less dangerous.
Philadelphia was planning on opening the nation’s first safe injection site, but last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the injection center violated a federal statute dubbed the “crack house” law.
This law, passed in the 1980s, outlawed establishing any location to unlawfully use controlled substances. But according to Philadelphia Inquirer, the new Biden administration is expected to ease up on enforcement, especially if Biden’s choice to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra, is approved.
Now back to SB 73. Read Wiener's public pronouncements supporting SB 73 and you will see he is trying to mislead people on what the bill does. He says the bill will end mandatory minimum sentencing requirements for many drug offenses, but he only talks about the users and addicts who will not be required to go to jail for possession.
Yet pull up the language of the bill and you will see the text also removes minimum sentencing for “possessing for sale,” “forging or altering prescriptions,” and “agreeing to sell or transport” hard drugs. Wiener obviously isn't eager to reveal his bill removes mandatory jail time for drug dealers, but that is what his bill does.
Greg Burt is director of capitol engagement for the California Family Council. He can be reached at gregb@californiafamily.org and 949-244-2080.
Another idiot Weiner!
As if Californians weren’t brain-dead enough.
Sounds good to me. With Biden’s hourly EO’s against liberty and freedom.
Because of the taxes they generate?
Hard drugs and open borders. What could go wrong?
The proles won’t even notice they are slaves, or care, that way.
Maybe jeffrey toobin can promote this wiener?
California’s race to the bottom. Quick way to get there too.
For anyone following the russian story on Putin poisoning Nalvany , this is exactly why Putin jabbed that Soros turd with a poison needle.
Keep Californians stoned so they don’t realize how bad their elected officials are.
“As if Californians weren’t brain-dead enough.”
I don’t think hard drugs would make them worse than they are now.
Giving younge boys hard drugs is next.
There is a reason why we have laws to prevent people from doing some things. Also a reason why we incarcerate criminals. Also a reason people are forbidden to have some things. It’s called public safety! Before we decriminalize all drug use, let’s decriminalize all weapon use, so the public can defend themselves from drug-addicted criminals. After all, the 2nd Amendment says we can have arms, it doesn’t say anything about having drugs. We need our guns!
Isn’t this the same guy who helped legalize LBGT pedophilia? Moral relativism-book of Judges theme. Didn’t end well
Instead Wiener boy here prefers to disproportionately ruin "black and brown" lives by making hard drugs readily available to them.
High time
God bless their little hearts. Let ‘em all OD! The Marxist DemonRat party can bring America down fast enough for their liking.
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