Posted on 01/26/2021 1:21:18 AM PST by fwdude
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” in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles 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.
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1. One year lock-down cold-turkey rehab where they will perform some kind of service to pay for their treatment.
2. Free drug of their choice in mass quantities and a free room to partake of said drug.
It is time to accept that the war on drugs does more harm to society than it does good so we can at last move on.
In some way, he’s trying to create an Amsterdam-like setting where weed and heroin exist in harmony, with local life in some friendly setting.
The problem with this...you don’t have campers set up or tents existing in Amsterdam, with thousands of non-producing/non-working residents.
If you owned a $1.5-million house, seeing dozens of needles within a five-minute walk of the property, and six tents within viewing distance of the house...how do property values appear to you? I’d put it immediately up for sale and vacate the state.
It seems that a number of the riots over the summer have revolved around a suspect who was using or selling drugs. And that makes me question if the damage that has been done to this country was worth it. As an aside, who benefitted from this war on drugs politically? The Democrats! They were able to leverage "police brutality" on minorities as campaign material.
Anyway, I don't want to get too much into a spur of the issue, but I wonder about something. If addictive drugs are decriminalized or legalized, will someone be able to go into a pharmacy and purchase medical grade addictive substances in liquid or tablet form? Opiates (morphine), stimulants (meth, cocaine), phencyclidine, marijuana, hallucinogens? Will the DEA cease the prosecution of doctors who "over prescribe" addictive substances? Will the government cease lawsuits against manufactures who produce addictive drugs?
[ Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) ]
Sometimes, I have to look twice to see if it’s satire.
I believe these wacko ideas need to be implemented so we all see them fail spectacularly...
If you make everything legal, you can then defund the police, because you don’t need police to enforce the law when there is no law to enforce....
I’m being serious, how long before someone in California says we need to implement the PURGE, just like the movies, where one night per year, everything including murder is legal...
I want the price to be below a level that encourages (rather than virtually requires) addicts to commit crimes (including selling drugs) to pay for drugs.
I want not the possession, sale or use of drugs to be criminal but the behavior caused by drug abuse to be prosecuted.
Don’t forget...the more drugs on the street, the more addicts you get, and the more Hiden-Biden will pay you for your stay in a hotel! Courtesy of us, the American taxpayer! Wonder if we can write that off on our taxes as a charitable deduction?
Can’t disagree. Somehow, someway, take the profit out of illegal drugs. I fully understand the grief that families are going to go through when a family member dies from overdosing. But that is an individual’s choice, even if it is not a fully informed or educated choice. But I think it’s time for cities to stop burning because the police are being made the scapegoats for enforcing drug laws.
They used to argue that legalizing weed would cut down on hard drug use. Oops.
.....“safe injection sites” in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
......will legalize all psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms.
......lower the criminal penalties on users and dealers
What about decriminalizing the methods used to finance drug use?
They decriminalized shoplifting and very soon, Walgreens stores were getting wiped clean and closed.
If legalizing drugs was a valid solution, we’d have done it a long time ago.
On weekends I watch the National Geographic series Narco Wars, To Catch a smuggler, and I think another one. The viciousness of the central and south American drug cartels, the control they have over the militarys and local law enforcement agencies makes it impossible for any successful war to be waged.
Penalties for trafficking in those countries should be more strict, immediate execution........
Wow... From the looks of that guy I’d say he better lay off the crack pipe for a while...
He looks like a skeleton wearing leather.
Yikes.
Over the years conservative views have increasingly become more libertarian and I would say more in line with common sense.
“safe injection site” - an oxymoron if there ever was one.
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