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Human802 t1_jc9za0k wrote

Reply to comment by Rogers_Ebert in Vermont Lawmakers File Bills To Legalize Psychedelics And Decriminalize All Drugs by OregonTripleBeam

No I’m on that shit called reality where I keep seeing people I grew up with destroyed by addiction. The drug war failed, and our neurological understanding of addiction has increased. We are not ever going to just arrest this problem away.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jca01c4 wrote

So how is the government distributing heroin going to help addicts?

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Human802 t1_jca0vua wrote

Under cut the legal market, get them a clean supply this will lower the overdose rate. This will lower crime rates by removing funding for organized crime.

Then you have patients using medication that can then be helped to ween off or manage their addiction. Then they are no longer criminals and get the economic and mental health support to rejoin society.

This has been tried with success in places like Vancouver CA, or in Portugal. The basic idea is treating people like they are sick and need help, instead of just criminal addicts, gets better results.

It seems obvious that nothing attempted in VT or America in my lifetime has worked, at all, even a little. Time to rethink the whole situation.

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Galadrond t1_jcsq2wj wrote

Phil Scott absolutely hates the idea of supervised injection sites. Vermonters get what they vote for.

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Human802 t1_jctf2ue wrote

Yes Scott is clearly more comfortable with hundreds of Vermonters od’ing than trying something different. It is disappointing.

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