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"The facilities provide a safe space where people can consume previously obtained drugs" That seems strange. If you actually tolerate drug use why not go the

• askvictor 9y ago
  That would be ideal, but probably not possible politically (at the moment, anyway). But this is a step in the right direction, and will hopefully lead to this in time.
• smsm42 9y ago
  Because then the organizers of the site would be in jail for drug trafficking, and so would be any doctor who prescribed those. That could happen only if drugs are legalized, and not only on the state but on federal level. You can judge how far we are from there if you notice that DOJ, under Sessions, is still battling the benign marijuana, even for medical use (which makes me seeing red and my blood pressure skyrockets each time I think about it - ffs, we use chemicals in medicine that can are like a nuclear weapon compared to marijuana's zippo lighter, and still these people refuse to see the case for even prescribed medical use!). And you're talking about legally dealing out the real bad stuff, which is dangerous. We are decades from that, at the very best.
• bfuller 9y ago
  We're getting there. There are opiate maintenance programs that utilize diamorphine (obviously not in the USA). They will give you pure heroin and supervise you so you don't fall out.