San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on open-air drug use

Re:San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on ... by pmoriarty on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:53AM (#27662765)

"There is only so much law enforcement can do"

Drug abuse should not be a law enforcement issue, but a medical issue.

The problems on that street are a failure of the mental health system, lack of social safety nets, and the abject failure of the war on drugs which forces people to use unsafe drugs in unsafe ways instead of making sure that safe drugs can be used safely (which is what legalization or at least decriminalization would help ensure).

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Re:San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:03AM (#27662877)

> Drug abuse should not be a law enforcement issue, but a medical issue

The comment you're replying to concerns itself with drug dealers. Not users. Theirs is not a medical issue, but a law enforcement one.

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Re:San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on ... by pmoriarty on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:14AM (#27662991)

Drug dealers should not be arrested either!

The whole War on Drugs is completely unjust, immoral, misguided, and ineffective.

People should not go to jail for using or selling drugs.

Both should be made legal and regulated.

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