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Originally Posted by Whynotnow
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.
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I literally said possession is not a reason to arrest someone.
Public intoxication is Though. And if you can’t even get back to your tent, or your flop house, or at least out of sight of a bunch of preschoolers, you have lost control of your life and getting arrested might be the only thing that saves you. It probably won’t. But staying on the streets and doing drugs that curve your spine is just going to end in death.
I don’t get why that’s somehow more acceptable.