We can solve that overnight by legalizing the selling of drugs to adults. Require a (free) registration to be able to buy, prohibit the selling to minors, require that all shops selling it have pamphlets with addiction guidance and pom, no more drug dealers, no more selling to kids.
Also way less crime.
Legalizing drugs at best reduces the black market/removes some of the danger. There are still plenty of black market weed dealers in states with legal recreational use. For that matter, there are still people selling cigarettes in a black market, Eric Garner was killed for doing this.
Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:18PM
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People sell to adults when it's illegal. If you make adults legal and minors illegal, why do you assume that nobody will sell to minors?
Over here on the other coast, I focus on littering in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, though related to the broad-daylight wide-open sales and use of heroin and crack combined by the police retreating from walking through the park to only standing behind barricades near the arch.
I posted a couple videos on it here: https://joshuaspodek.com/pride-destroyed-the-park-washington.... I've picked up litter every day since 2017, starting from an environmental motivation, but as a resident since the 90s with civic duty, safety and crime have become important.