Tag: Netherlands Drug Policy
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San Francisco Officials Enabling “Slow Motion Suicide” By Not Offering Coercive Intervention
The people in charge of homelessness and addiction want to bully people into giving up public streets and parks. They want to take your tax money and let your suffering neighbors die gentle, stoned deaths while they watch and call it justice. They think the mothers who want to get their sons out of the…
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Portugal COERCED Drug Addicts To Quit — Missing This Point About Portugal Is Obscene
I’m pretty sure drug policy advocates by and large don’t look into the details in Portugal’s successful drug model. By decriminalizing drugs, Portugal lowered drug addiction burdens for society by providing treatment and connection instead of disconnecting incarceration and isolation. That’s what you hear all the time from drug policy reformers — and they’re persuasive…
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Shellenberger: Why We Must Arrest Drug Addicts
Michael Shellenberger has an excellent article out today. Read this article if you’re here to do the real work for addicts. Arresting drug addicts in America is the only morally correct position. Dead drug addicts — you see — do not have a chance recover. That’s the thing about death. There’s no do-overs once you’ve…
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