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Originally Posted by GGG
Well one of the items being campaigned for by BLM protestors is to legalize drugs. This is because it criminalizes people of Color at disproportionate rates. However legalizing drugs, using the money spent on drug enforcement, and jails for drug users and dealers to help with addictions.
So yes the goals of the groups wanting to defund the police would likely help with the gang war over the long term.
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The little I know of the Portuguese model, I seem to like it.
From what I understand (and I could be off) ALL drugs decriminalized, and can be prescribed by doctors and administered by pharmacists (sounds like how we administer methadone).
Controlled environment, ability to provide a social network for help, and stigmatize addictions.
This is basically where I got my information, while Jim Jefferies is a comedian the premise is they have an actual expert on the show, Jim tells everything he knows about the topic, then the expert corrects and expands upon the topic.
The expert for the war on drugs was
Johann Hari