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A comment on British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces. Parent comment

Re:British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public ... by mindblowing65 on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:53PM (#40175624)
It’s mindblowing that you think compassion means letting s hoard of people absolutely destroy areas of a major cities and not, you know, an over correction to “war on drugs”-like awful policies.

For the individual drug user things might be “better”, but for cities/society they are absolutely not.

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Re:British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public ... by andy99 on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:23PM (#40175851)
Yes, I was reflecting on this recently, it feels like public drug use (as well as homeless encampments, aggressive panhandling etc) is putting the rights of the individual drug user well above the rights of society, which seems incongruous for the people that support it.
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