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Xanny t1_j61lxxx wrote

Reply to comment by RuthBaderG in GOP delegate: Hesitation to back SA Bates' tougher gun sentences plan is 'irresponsible' by TheSpektrModule

Most of the extreme incarcerations that ruined neighborhoods were drug related in the last 40 years, not violent crime related.

We can be hard on violence and decriminalize drugs and stop the racist drug war.

Drugs right now only overlap so hugely with violent crime because both are heavily criminalized. And while hard drugs like heroin will never be good, we can approach them as a health problem rather than a crime problem and reduce violence along the way.

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ok_annie t1_j61num4 wrote

Decriminalization solves very little. It still leaves manufacture and distribution in the hands of violent criminals who are cool with murder for profit and will cut everything with fentanyl. Legalization and regulation are the only way.

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