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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by lr4444lr on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:37PM (#20780189)
False dilemma. We can mandate them by court order to attend treatment programs. There are ways of helping petty criminals that don't involve locking them in a box 24/7.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by pnw_hazor on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:56PM (#20781224)
They are ordered to treatment. Many don't go.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by rdtwo on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:54PM (#20781187)
Sure you can, but do we? And are there sufficient facilities to do so? A judge also mandated that the federal government house migrant children in a humane way but how well is that working out...point being that you can’t mandate something that there are no resources to do.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by jacobush on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:02PM (#20780500)
That’s just crazy talk. Next you are going suggest free healthcare for all or something communist like that.
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