Quote (Skinned @ Feb 8 2022 06:30am)
Better in the light and clean and sanitary than in the darkness.
People who use suboxone are so much better off than people who use heroin.
This is directional movement and won't happen without opportunity.
You have a sanctioned site you have access to narcan morel likely, more access to sobriety coaches and 12 step people. It is safer and more hygienic.
I guess he argument against this would be the argument that is for Crack Houses and all that goes on there.
Being Pro-Crack House is a weird stance to take with what we know now after the drug war etc.
There's more than one facet to the argument. There's the question of whether it should be law, and whether it is law.
I think the best argument against tolerance and accommodation isn't made theoretically, its looking at how the current wave of soft-on-crime measures has blown up in our faces. We've seen how an overly zealous and militant war on drugs can be self-defeating, but we've also seen how decriminalization, sentencing reform and 'harm reduction' initiatives can greatly worsen the harm in practice. There has to be some sane middle road, and I'm not sure legal injection sites and handing out crack pipes is the right path forward on that. Its all well and good in theory when well-meaning medical staff are caring for drug addicts and shepherding them to going clean. Then you feed it through the woodchipper that is implementation of public policy and social services and watch as uncaring social workers dodge bullets while let violent drug gangs operate with impunity on government sanctioned turf.
But that takes a back seat to the question of what the law actually is. And its a pretty spectacular irony to watch Biden's DoJ twist and contort to try to justify overturning its own decades of legal interpretations of a plain text that Joe Biden himself presented with impassioned diatribes, "I'd throw the building owner in jail too!". So it boils down to Biden tasking Merrick Garland with simply failing to enforce something that is clearly against the law, without any coherent pretense, falling back on the oldest trick in the book: Silence.