Tag: Portugal Drug Policy
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EXAGGERATING HARMFUL DRUG EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN IS KILLING BLACK PEOPLE.
Dr. Carl Hart. “This is why you don’t do drugs kids.” That admonishment—directed at bystanders who watched in horror as police manhandled George Floyd’s 46-year-old, defeated black body—spoke volumes about what kind of people we are and our warped values. Drug researchers with neuroscience leanings, me included, have helped shape and perpetuate this sick ethos in…
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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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Tell The Senate You Want Iowa To Vote On SF 500 To Fight Overdose Crisis | Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition
Ask leadership to schedule SF 500, the bill to legalize Syringe Service Programs, for a full Senate vote We need Iowans to join us now to get this bill all the way through! Read SF 500 Tell Senator Schneider and Senator Whitver that Iowa needs SSPs in 2019 It’s all written for you, just hit send…
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Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Endorses Dr. Andy McGuire for Governor
Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Dr. Andy McGuire Gubernatorial Campaign was endorsed by Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana this evening via their Facebook: Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana After careful vetting of the Democratic primary field Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana would like to encourage voters to participate in the June 5th primary by casting…
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