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   XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/28/24 20:28, Sam wrote:   
   > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:59:21 -0500, "61h.1601" <61h.1602@e3t2w.net> wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2/28/24 7:10 AM, Surrender! wrote:   
   >>> Tonight, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt testified in   
   >>> favor of Oregon legislators’ latest proposal to recriminalize hard drugs,   
   >>> ending a lengthy public silence on whether he supports rolling back the   
   >>> heart of the 2020 ballot measure that made Oregon the first state in the   
   >>> country to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of heroin, meth   
   >>> and fentanyl.   
   >>   
   >>    How quickly they turn ....   :-)   
   >>   
   >>    Look, there's no perfect - or even halfway perfect - fix   
   >>    for the 'drug problem'. Criminalization = Big Crime,   
   >>    legalization = Social Dissolution. It's a human nature   
   >>    thing, people just LOVE their drugs and will get 'em   
   >>    and take 'em no matter what even if it kills them. It's   
   >>    how the species is hardwired.   
   >>   
   >>    So, what ya gonna do ?   
   >>   
   >>    Throw all the dopeheads/dealers in jail for 50 years and   
   >>    you'll run out of jail space real quick - and $$$ to run   
   >>    any such system even if you turn some big island into   
   >>    a gulag. Oh, and up the stakes too much and the crime   
   >>    gets more and more violent. On the flip, go TOO easy   
   >>    on 'em and it will be a situation similar to the west   
   >>    coast BlueVilles streets - a "no worries, gimme a   
   >>    bag of ..." attitude.   
   >>   
   >>    Not every human issue has a good solution. We just have   
   >>    to kinda kludge our way through it.   
   >   
   >   
   >   Oh the best policy with drug abusers is to give them enough Fentanyl to   
   > do them selves in. Back when China had millions of opioid addicts Mao just   
   > had his police shoot them in the back of their head. Everybody gotta die   
   > sometime and it would be much cheaper then putting them up in a steel bar   
   > hotel.   
   >   
      
           Wouldn't you rather give them a safer drug like Morphine Sulfate   
   so that they live long enough to have a fair chance at recovery from the   
   condition of opiate addiction?   
   	Morphine is a legal opiate and manufactured by pharmaceutical   
   companies.  It will ease withdrawal pains from heroin and fentanyl but   
   can be reduced to either nothing or maintenance doses. This is the   
   drug that should be used in so-called safe clinics for getting   
   people off of the worse drugs and who cannot be maintained on   
   methadone.   
   	Locking people up in jails and prisons is not a good remedy.   
   	People who sell fentanyl here in San Francisco are being   
   charged in the deaths of their customers with murder.   
   	You might find my position soft but on the other hand I   
   have known several opiate abusers and one was a friend who made   
   a bad choice and died for it.  Still miss Page who severely depressed   
   by September 9, 2001.   
      
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