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@lukecarey613 Says:
I dunno, I’m powerless over addiction, in me, and in other people. 🍃
@PeaceLoveUnity4Ever Says:
Legalize, tax, and regulate all drugs says Law Enforcement Action Partnership. Forced rehab has a less than 50 percent success rate according to decades of trying forced rehab. There is a better, and more proven effective, way to reduce addiction, which is not done via criminalizing, jail, prison, and stigmatizing drug users and drug addicts. Economic justice, compassion, treatment, and education are the only way to reduce addiction and reduce overdoses.
@onealdavis1610 Says:
Turn jail into a rehab😮
@jeffreysmith2069 Says:
Anarchist.
@BushyHairedStranger Says:
So let’s go backward to trapping people for drug possession, people who dont have criminal records! Lets arrest them & force them into unwanted & unneeded drug court programs that force drug treatment whether you want it or not! Cause forcing people by court order sanctioned arrests & jail has worked so well in our country! Yeah let’s go back to trapping people with no criminal record for possession of personal amounts of drugs & physically force them into a situation where they have no choice in the outcome of their own lives! Cause thats Real Freedom right?
Circuit Court Judges “offer” you a FORCED YEAR OF UNWANTED DRUG TREATMENT or a FORCED YEAR OF UNWANTED DRUG TREATMENT AFTER YOU DO A FORCED YEAR IN PRISON, FOLLOWED BY 3-5 YEARS OF UNWANTED POST PRISON PAROLE OR PROBATION SUPERVISION all of which you must pay for!! All for personal amounts of drugs where no one else is hurt or even involved!!,…Yea thats sounds sane.
Oregon drug courts sanction people to complete a year of unwanted drug treatment even if they plead guilty to a UPCS 1 felony charge, have gone to prison & served their time. Why? because after prison there is always YEARS of supervised probation or supervised post prison parole that you have to pay for! Along with forced UA tests that you also pay for! & if you dont comply? you get another charge-FTC & go back into the circuit court drug treatment process and do it all over again! It’s the Circuit court Wheel of Incarceration! a total racket that Law enforcement, Circuit Courts, Prisons,Jails & the Parole & Probation office use to make money of you being their $LAVE!
When people are forced into unwanted drug court drug treatment using jail & prison as a ‘Sword of Damocles’ most will immediately run-or “abscond”. Then they get a FTA warrant & then they really start doing shit they would never have done had they been left the fuck alone in the first place!
Drug Courts DO NOT WORK! nor does unwanted drug treatment! So stop forcing it on people!
Drug Treatment only works when a drug user has chosen by their own free will to get off the drugs.
@georgegouvas27 Says:
you let them have drugs then cry about it.
@georgegouvas27 Says:
just outlaw all
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@MikJames-d1g Says:
Wow, a hammer believes in the threat of hammers...shocking...
We really need to find something useful for the simple minded to do in society, something other than becoming cops.
@MikJames-d1g Says:
It's almost like people don't want to exist in reality for some reason, and no longer care if it's permanent.
I wonder why that could be given how fine and dandy the world is these days...
Nah I don't actually, cause I'm not a complete m0r0n.
@jayff0000 Says:
Idk what people consider criminalized. To me the line is don't throw people in jail for personal drug use / addiction. I might be in favor of compelled rehab. Throwing people in jail obviously doesn't work, we've tried that for decades. We should treat is as a health crises. I imagine jail gives people a record, makes it harder to get a job, get on their feet, leaves them struggling and more likely to relapse. Lets help people instead of punishing people.
@MichaelLeeOne Says:
They need to make recreational drug prescription only so that the drugs are pure and the dosages are regulated.
@christerry1773 Says:
Is my memory shit, or was Anna's position the complete opposite a year ago!
@djluminol Says:
The way the government goes about this is all is really stupid. Decriminalizing or legalizing drugs period is a bad idea. As Oregon has learned you can have addicts causing problems when people are trying to go shopping or visit a business. Homeowners get mad when they can't have problem people removed from their area. Those are all legitimate complaints. The answer isn't to go back to the messed up previous system. Just make it illegal to do drugs in public. Doing drugs in your own home is fine. It's your body if you want to use it that way that's on you. You cause problems for other people they have a right to ask that it be stopped.
@RobertJohnson-bj5lk Says:
Making drugs a crime???
What a concept.
@OK-pi6fq Says:
I have never, and will never law or no law give the government the right over my own body and my ability to do what I want with it. The only freedom we have is what we can do to ourselves and never will release that right to anyone I don’t care if they make me a criminal for doing it it’s not their right. You don’t want to give the government that right it’s ridiculous. If that means that there are consequences for your actions for what you choose to do to yourself and so be it that’s called being an adult that’s freedom my friend making mistakes. But I don’t feel like I should be beholden to the laws because you can’t handle your own personal responsibilities.
@yvettebowles9011 Says:
I recently watched a documentary on some town in Europe that has a housing first initiative. Drugs are also decriminalized. But because they are housing the homeless, there's no drug use on the streets. And being housed gives addicts the stability needed to make positive changes in their lives. Such as getting clean and/or getting a job. And even if they are getting high, they are doing it in the privacy of their own home. Their parks and sidewalks are safe for children and families. They didn't just decriminalize and then turn their backs. They have harm reduction services. Which they do not have in Portland.
@CCFONESOL Says:
Re-criminalizing won't help
@cucuidelanoche5583 Says:
Overdoses are reaching levels unseen because people would rather die than live in this f’d up society. If you want to treat addiction you have to give people a reason to live more than a reason to die. Society just doesn’t provide that scenario, so people choose death and destruction.
@JodasPinkt Says:
The drugs are in the open and on the streets because of *homelessness*, the drugs are a side effect of that. A lot of research has shown that giving people homes does a lot more to break the cycle of addiction than ANY form of rehab.
@dascherofficial Says:
Anna is half right. Decriminalisation without the infrastructure and funding to support it like healthcare and treatment services is never going to work. It doesn't need to be regulated. And you can still enforce public use laws, littering laws, etc as matters of public safety like many states do with cigarettes and alcohol.
However legalisation with the distribution points and treatment centers in one location can address safety and public health concerns.
@silvertortoise3776 Says:
About time. Weed and meth are not the same.
@Cat-and-Tilly Says:
My question is how is it FREEDOM to close liquor stores on Sundays? Texas law prohibits sales at liquor stores but you can buy it if you have it with your meal at a restaurant.
@pwesiti Says:
I wasn’t convinced at first but now I am. Decriminalization isn’t necessarily the answer.
@jeff95050 Says:
Legalize all drugs ..like alcohol and nicotine. Stop the unfair anti-competition advantage the booze and tobacco industry have!
@carpediemarts705 Says:
5 Fy deaths a week? I would have guessed that per day in Portland/Seattle alone.
@darlenedileonardo2934 Says:
Can I remind everyone that the American Medical Association added alcoholism a disease in 1956, and included drug addiction as one in 1987……this needs to be treated like a disease and these people need real help. They cannot do it on their own. This does not absolve the crimes committed or others who were harmed. They just love using addicts as a source of money for their own agenda.
@breachperplex8846 Says:
Legalize all drugs
@DoNotImpose Says:
TYT = Newsmax
@frostydei5012 Says:
Incarcerating local, small quantity drug dealers and disrupting every section of the supply chain is literally what caused the fentanyl/opiod crisis.
People build solidarity and deep connections within communities.
This is what happens.
An addict's first dealer is typically a relative, childhood friend, colleague, neighbor, or otherwise adjacent personal relationship.
You aren't going to sell your cousin a hotshot. Especially if all your shared connections know you to be his dealer.
What happens when that dealer goes to prison? The addict desperately seeks out a new dealer. Probably a total stranger who has no stakes in the survival of conspicuous drug-seekers. Especially if no common friends can implicate the stranger after his customers die.
@jypseaspencer13 Says:
You removed my post! My son died of a fentanyl overdose in Portland Oregon in the doorway of the treatment center! How can you just remove my Post? His name was RAYMOND SPENCER JR, A VETERAN , abandoned by the system.
@antipatiko Says:
Yes we need to legalize and regulating BUT your arguments are bonkers!
1. The original law was supposed to decriminalize AND use weed tax to increase funds for rehabilitation centers. The weed tax is a major part of this law!
So to call the law "a disaster," knowing that half of that law was never enforced, yeah that's wild!
2. You and I agree that public drug use is bad BUT we both know that a ban on public use will guarantee that the homeless will be targeted while they use in the privacy of their cardboard tents.
3. Cenk: "you shouldn't get to say 'I like the option of not doing anything eventhough I smashed into your car'"
tf! That. Was. Never. An. Option! Only drug use was decriminalized. They did not decriminalize assault or destruction of property, etc
4. And the "plea bargain for drug dealers" is such an asinine argument. Wtf is going on with Cenk and Anna today
@Kate-nl4lz Says:
I do agree with legalize & regulate. De-criminalize is not enough. Re:the stupid idea of using pot tax to fund drug treatments,
2 issues I see with getting widespread substance abuse treatment availability:
1-costs are excessively high. If not publicly funded, many addicts can't afford treatment. Pot tax isn't likely to be enough to start.
2-permanent record. If you go, your name will forever be connected to them being "an addict" or "recovering addict" which will eliminate some jobs, apartments, security clearances, background checks, or even if there's a custody dispute between 2 parents.
Insurance and HIPPA are not enough to counteract these issues.
@johngrissom9147 Says:
If people had a better life to look forward to I don't think that the overdoses would not be as bad !!!!!
@Dhwbwsoe Says:
What … making drugs legal causes problems for addicts… both are terrible ideas…
@Frxxdxm Says:
You know why it is. They don't give a fuck about us
@jaxxone4907 Says:
so they got everyone addicted now good luck getting them streight
@TheLastLineLive Says:
Treatment should be mandatory not optional.
@Free-leftistaction Says:
So TYT is effectively advocating for treating users as criminals instead of people in need of medical intervention?
Oh how the mighty have fallen….
@nancismith7705 Says:
Portland, Oregon has become an open sewer! The citizens of Oregon have gotten what they voted for! Enjoy!
@nikoPiros1265 Says:
How do you ensure a user goes to rehab? A homeless user, with no ID (usually because they were stolen), with the ability to just pick up and move.
All they would have to do is say 'Yes, Ill go to rehab.' And then vanish, likely with an eventual warrent which puts them right back in jail the next time theyre caught using. I think this will end up like the citations. A pretty idea but no way to realistically enforce it thus 'basically' recriminalizing it again.
I have very stong doubts this will work
@johnking6252 Says:
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@McRocket Says:
People?
Treatment centers do NOT work for most addicts.
How many dozens of celebrities have you read/heard of who went into 'rehab'?
Only to fall off the wagon a few years later?
As an ex-crackhead.
I knew lots of people that went into treatment and they were using not long after leaving them.
There is only one way to quit drugs - you have to want to badly enough.
Period.
And no treatment center can give you that.
The masses want to call drug addiction a 'disease' and hope that rehab is the answer so they can feel better about it.
Make it seem so simple.
Like, if they just pour enough money into treatment centers - that is the cure.
Well it is NOT simple.
People start drugs because they are troubled/empty/were abused.
Rehab's cannot make you feel whole and loved and get rid of the pain of your past.
Only the user - perhaps with counselling - can do that.
There are only two types of people that treatment centers can help: addicts who are out of control/in a spiral and need a place to just stop before they die.
And people who like to be ordered around.
The former is just a place to chill.
The latter is not indicative of most addicts - who are generally rebels at heart. Most of us/them hate authority and control.
You people who have never been hardcore addicts can NEVER understand.
Just as I (a male) can never understand what childbirth is really like (for example).
Stop pretending you know what addicts need when you have no idea what the life is like.
Almost all addicts can stop immediately.
They just don't want to badly enough.
Period.
You want to help an addict?
Love them, possibly pay for counselling and stay away from them (as they may rob you blind if given a chance).
They have to work it out on their own.
It's their life.
Not yours.
☮
@Mister-Reno Says:
YOU CANT LOCK UP YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS. stop criminalizing addiction
@booskie4316 Says:
SF resident here: Fentanyl is worse than any street drug I've ever seen. The rate at which it kills its users is shocking. People seem to get addicted overnight. I've seen idiots who clearly have jobs and lives pick it up and become zombies by the next week. The users get their spines warped because the drug makes them pass out standing or fold over on themselves for hours. They are laughably easy to spot because they will ALWAYS have their scorched foil and melted straws in their hands. The gangs exclusively use teenage street dealers so that they get charged as minors. The police are involved in the importation. It's a nightmare.
I've personally resuscitated a man who had stopped breathing and all around me I saw people continue to smoke up on the very fentanyl that nearly killed him. I saw him the next day getting high and I kind of felt like I shouldn't have done it. I can only imagine how the first responders feel having to deal with this every day.
@derekgoncz7970 Says:
Rehabilitation should be available for first time offenders in most situations.
@oldreprobate2748 Says:
Oregon and this show is way off reality.
@oldreprobate2748 Says:
Re-criminalization is not the answer. Figure out what the causation of drug use and fix it. I think you are going to find out that the governments going with the trickle-down economics of reagan is much of that.
@funnyyellowdog8833 Says:
You can get anything you want on the internet, no matter where you live, so where is the point in punishing users?
At least offer public drug checking.
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