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They say they want fewer overdoses but no mention of supervised consumption sites, which are the easiest and most effective way to do that.
It's always just more cops. Are there any politicians who can come up with 1 creative solution? Or talk to the people who can?
Most simple folk think repealing M110 will fix the drug problem, we all know it won't. I'm on board with safe injection sites. I'm not onboard with people smoking fentanyl or meth indoors. There needs to be treatment, but that's not going to happen fast in any way shape or form. We need providers and that costs a lot of money and takes time to train, and it's not like there's any huge campaign to get people to go into that line of work, considering the pay is shit. But, we need an army of them, literally.
Yeah, its really silly. Decriminalizing it didnt make it more prevalent. People would still be doing drugs, with the only difference is that theyll be getting arrested and be back out by the end of the night.
famously drug-less environments: jails