San Francisco to force mentally ill drug users into treatment.

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I recall that but forgot details. Post up a link.

Here's what the data says about Portugal's decriminalization:

Drug-related HIV infections have plummeted by over 90% since 2001, according to the drug-policy think tank Transform.

Drug-related deaths in Portugal are the second-lowest in the European Union. Just three in a million people die of overdoses there, compared with the EU average of 17.3 per million.

The number of adults who have done drugs in the past year has decreased steadily since 2001.

Compared to rest of the EU, young people in Portugal now use the least amount of "legal high" drugs like synthetic marijuana, which are especially dangerous.

The percentage of drug-related offenders in Portuguese prisons fell from 44% in 1999 to 21% in 2012.

The number of people in drug-treatment increased 60% from 1998 to 2011 from 23,600 to 38,000.


https://www.businessinsider.com/what...16-3?r=US&IR=T

[Don Pichardo]

Can’t green u damnit.

That’s right they legalized it all. I generally don’t oppose the idea. Rather dope be taxed than giving all the profits to the cartels.

Plus I imagine the results would be similar here.

Here's what the data says about Portugal's decriminalization:

Drug-related HIV infections have plummeted by over 90% since 2001, according to the drug-policy think tank Transform.

Drug-related deaths in Portugal are the second-lowest in the European Union. Just three in a million people die of overdoses there, compared with the EU average of 17.3 per million.

The number of adults who have done drugs in the past year has decreased steadily since 2001.

Compared to rest of the EU, young people in Portugal now use the least amount of "legal high" drugs like synthetic marijuana, which are especially dangerous.

The percentage of drug-related offenders in Portuguese prisons fell from 44% in 1999 to 21% in 2012.

The number of people in drug-treatment increased 60% from 1998 to 2011 from 23,600 to 38,000.


https://www.businessinsider.com/what...16-3?r=US&IR=T

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Here's what the data says about Portugal's decriminalization:

Drug-related HIV infections have plummeted by over 90% since 2001, according to the drug-policy think tank Transform.

Drug-related deaths in Portugal are the second-lowest in the European Union. Just three in a million people die of overdoses there, compared with the EU average of 17.3 per million.

The number of adults who have done drugs in the past year has decreased steadily since 2001.

Compared to rest of the EU, young people in Portugal now use the least amount of "legal high" drugs like synthetic marijuana, which are especially dangerous.

The percentage of drug-related offenders in Portuguese prisons fell from 44% in 1999 to 21% in 2012.

The number of people in drug-treatment increased 60% from 1998 to 2011 from 23,600 to 38,000.


https://www.businessinsider.com/what...16-3?r=US&IR=T

Can’t green u damnit.

That’s right they legalized it all. I generally don’t oppose the idea. Rather dope be taxed than giving all the profits to the cartels.

Plus I imagine the results would be similar here.

If you criminalise drugs people are less likely to tell people they need help from fear of arrest and prison.


Treating drugs addiction like a health issue the same as alcoholism makes people feel like they can get help.

Drug laws only really help the governments who are corrupt anyway.

[DoubleLeftH00k]

Sounds like a good idea. Let’s see if it works. I don’t think there is no other option short of killing them or locking them up.

https://apnews.com/7f6bada8478d4ba785cbde93b1869f1e

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials decided Tuesday to force some people with serious mental illness and drug addiction into treatment, even if it goes against the spirit of a city known for its fierce protection of civil rights.

Several members of the Board of Supervisors voiced deep concerns Tuesday about the possibility of taking away a person’s civil liberties, but the proposal for a pilot program passed 10-1.

Mayor London Breed and other supporters say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help people who are often homeless, addicted to drugs and have a mental illness, making them a danger to themselves.

Another money for big pharma?

Them corrupt dems be getting big cuts from the budget they will set for this so called treatment

[Zaroku]

There's not much anyone can do about it, right?

SF government owns their homeless junkies. They set up "safe injection sites" for them and give them free needles. Their is no incentive for them to work nor is it remotely financially viable for a homeless junkie to ever afford living there independently.

If they decide to transfer some of their zombies from "safe injection sites" into sanitariums, who is going to stop them? Are the street junkies going to unionize?

It's the classic cycle of handing your life over to the government.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Santayana ........respect... non **** kisses.....

Learn Hebrew..... you can.....easy..

[Zaroku]

Another money for big pharma?

Them corrupt dems be getting big cuts from the budget they will set for this so called treatment

They do.......... ***** ^^^^^^. I got lil homies who hate the irk they do....chemist ppl... apothecary types ...

[Zaroku]

If you criminalise drugs people are less likely to tell people they need help from fear of arrest and prison.


Treating drugs addiction like a health issue the same as alcoholism makes people feel like they can get help.

Drug laws only really help the governments who are corrupt anyway.

Big tobacco. Phillip Morris.

William Randolph Hearst I’m gonna stop posting soon..


I think I don’t know..... scare the masses use your news media empire.... create instill fear entertainjoe 6 pac...this buds for you...... Dumb down themasses dumazzes....

[BrometheusBob.]

There's not much anyone can do about it, right?

SF government owns their homeless junkies. They set up "safe injection sites" for them and give them free needles. Their is no incentive for them to work nor is it remotely financially viable for a homeless junkie to ever afford living there independently.

If they decide to transfer some of their zombies from "safe injection sites" into sanitariums, who is going to stop them? Are the street junkies going to unionize?

It's the classic cycle of handing your life over to the government.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Didn't expect this reaction from you, given your strong support for putting mentally ill in asylums in other threads.

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Didn't expect this reaction from you, given your strong support for putting mentally ill in asylums in other threads.

I don't recall. Which mentally ill were I in favor of institutionalizing?

[BrometheusBob.]

I don't recall. Which mentally ill were I in favor of institutionalizing?

I don't recall who, but you said something like there was a popular misconception amongst most people that institutionalizing the mentally ill is evil/harmful and that "traditional" psychology treatments were effective. Maybe it was about gay or trans folk? I forget.