How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner of the US

Re:How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:46AM (#37544480)

Decriminalizing drug use is intended to solve a different problem - that being throwing people in jail for being addicts is bad in a number of ways and consequences.

Making all drugs legal and available (with quality assurance) will (at least help) solve the problem you are talking about, but will at the same time create whole new problems that more and easier access to drugs will mean more people try and use them and then an increase in lives destroyed through addiction (and related consequences). My opinion is that would be worse.

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Re:How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:20AM (#37545978)

Decriminalizing use basically decriminalizes selling as far as I can tell here in the northwest. Police and prosecutors can no longer threaten users with legal action to give up their dealers, and since buying is now low risk, dealing also becomes lower risk. I’ve seen people on the street looking for drugs and find them on my morning walks (they are pretty vocal when asking, and dealers aren’t shy about replying).

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Re:How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner... by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:02PM (#37548795)

It would be easy to put out fake buyers to find the sellers. Sounds like lazy policing.

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Re:How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:01PM (#37549749)

It is hard to find police that can convincingly do unhoused drug addict well enough.

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