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> Like many other U.S. cities, San Francisco shifted years ago to treating drug use more like a disease than a crime. The heavy policing approach of the War on

> Like many other U.S. cities, San Francisco shifted years ago to treating drug use more like a disease than a crime. The heavy policing approach of the War on Drugs era failed to slow dealers or decrease demand while overcrowding jails and disproportionately punishing people of color, studies show. How much do you want to bet that these studies are completely fraudulent? Looking at the alzheimers research debacle academia has completely lost credibility. There are thousands of overly political and overzealous academics willing to lie or fudge the numbers to achieve political goals. We really need to use the Grandma test for these things, does making something illegal make people do less of it? Yes, my grandma could have told you that. Guess what, we decriminalized drugs, users arent being punished. The users are now dying at record rates and more people are doing the drugs than ever!

bequanna 3y ago
One huge issue of our age is blindly calling any research study “science” and ridiculing people who don’t accept the results.
DalasNoin 3y ago
Thanks for this, this narrative is being repeated a lot and should be challenged more: "The WAR on drugs failed so therefore we must totally 180 on everything." Obviously being very hard on drug dealers didn't eliminate drug usage, however we are not comparing it to the counterfactual of different drug strategies. Maybe the war on drugs did save people's life and prevented a large amount of drug usage. OR "disproportionately punishing people of color" Are they also disproportionately affected by overdoses or as victims?
- f-securus 3y ago
  If we spent half as much money helping people with recovery as we spend incarcerating them, there would be a lot of improvement. There are addicts that are tired of being addicts but can’t get help. I’m talking about in patient treatment plans where they can be monitored and assisted with various methods to deal with withdrawal.

bequanna 3y ago

One huge issue of our age is blindly calling any research study “science” and ridiculing people who don’t accept the results.

DalasNoin 3y ago

Thanks for this, this narrative is being repeated a lot and should be challenged more: "The WAR on drugs failed so therefore we must totally 180 on everything." Obviously being very hard on drug dealers didn't eliminate drug usage, however we are not comparing it to the counterfactual of different drug strategies. Maybe the war on drugs did save people's life and prevented a large amount of drug usage. OR "disproportionately punishing people of color" Are they also disproportionately affected by overdoses or as victims?

f-securus 3y ago
If we spent half as much money helping people with recovery as we spend incarcerating them, there would be a lot of improvement. There are addicts that are tired of being addicts but can’t get help. I’m talking about in patient treatment plans where they can be monitored and assisted with various methods to deal with withdrawal.