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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If you’re doing drugs in the street, you belong in jail.
If you think the solution is just to let these people shoot up in public with impunity, you’re not compassionate.
Jamming someone up for having drugs on them while otherwise not doing anything is bull####.
Arresting someone blitzed out of their mind on fentanyl at 10am on a Wednesday as they stand in front of a daycare playground on 11th Ave is not.
It should be standard operating procedure.
Heroin is a demon drug, and people can’t be made to get clean. They have to decide to do it for themselves, and Hitting rock bottom is important.
For many, getting arrested is that rock bottom.
But we just don’t do that anymore because… Why?
Leaving people to their own devices until they die is not compassion. It’s the opposite.
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Because criminalizing the addiction that underlies this, often the mental illness and the fact they are basically being preyed upon by the scum if the earth drug chemists who are creating this mess is borderline criminal itself for a society.
That doesn’t excuse it, or say in any way not to deal with it, or to excuse other criminal behaviour occurring (theft, violence, etc) but sending these folks to prison for having some crack or meth on them is also not the solution.