Gov. Hochul bill to combat opioid crisis decriminalizes public use, sale of needles and syringes https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/gov-hochul-signs-bill-aimed-at-combating-opioid-crisis/ Some of the stuff she signed can actually help the opioid crisis. Other things hurt it and enables it by making things like methadone more accessible. Get them hooked on state sponsored drugs instead!
Decriminalizing hard drugs makes little sense in a vacuum. If you're going to combat the problem in other ways that are less end-user hostile then by all means decriminalize. However you'd better have a really good intervention plan for those people that involves civil commitment instead of criminal until they are free of the problem.
An interesting line from this episode is when a public health official speaks positively of New Amsterdam, i think it was called, saying something to police and political leadership like 'We've been able to reach populations we never have before.' For me it may been the most interesting single line of the episode other than the dectective talking about how bowdie claimed entrapment after being arrested when new amsterdam was shut down.
Not sure how more access to heroin could be a good thing. I get the angle of help over punishment, but …. I don’t know, I guess I would have to read up on both side more.
I mean left to their own devices, with no interruptions heroin users will probably thin themselves out.
Just so you guys know. The minute this thread becomes battling ground for barf and Acad, I will move it to Politics forum. Play nice please
You don't have to believe in the supernatural to believe in the best and worst impulses in human nature. We have wrapped those up tidily into packages we call God and the Devil.
People are starting to OD on weed although rarely fatally. There is a new disorder involving uncontrolled vomiting that has begun to surface over the last couple of years. It apparently has roots in the edible THC market but it also afflicts people who use other cannabinoid products with very high concentrations of THC. You can concentrate, purify and abuse just about anything to the point of having a near-death experience.
That's what i think for people who don't get the covid vaccine. Don't treat them, let them raid their own cabinets for medicine. Unceremoniously sweep their bodies off the street into nearest pit for burning. Use ash as fertilizer for local farms, public parks and community gardens. The average iq of this nation would go up and the average weight would go down
I concur, not sure there is a case for decriminalizing heroin or meth. It seems like it would do no one any good. No one should have those drugs. But i should do more research on the subject as well. Weed should be legalized and perhaps the party drugs too e.g. cocaine, ecstasy and its variants. LSD has some medical and theraputic uses and it may be a good thing to use it as such.
