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"Safe injection sites" are an extension of the same half-assed scam as methadone clinics and "rehab," and they will not solve the problem of degenerate junkies shooting up and nodding in public spaces. This breed of junkie actually gets off on exhibiting his sick degenerate twisted habits to innocent passersby.
The only solution to public nuisance junkies is serious jail time followed by a stint in the workhouse. Make them kick in a cell then put their useless asses to work. Hard work like weeding tomato fields.
Making opiates legal OTC to 21+ is the real answer, which would allow even harsher penalties than those I suggest for public junk intoxication/nuisance.
I was going to downvote when I started reading that last line, but I finished it because I'm not a reactionary cunt. Your idea makes sense. Make it legal so we can send them to jail just for having it in their system. I like that a lot.
At my work, we have a bum who spends time in the local methodone clinic he's been visiting for years, standing on the other side of a mailbox that marks the end of my company's property. He stands there all day, everyday begging for money and we can't do anything because he's not on our property. I want to throw him into traffic.
Not exactly. Legal punishments would be for public intoxication and nuisance, not mere intoxication. I don't want anyone dragged to prison for being high as long as that high person minds his own business, behaves normally in public, and lets other people do the same.
Of course, employers would (and should) continue to demand sobriety on the job, regardless of the legal status of a particular intoxicant.
I hold the Libertarian position on drug use.
At least he's going to the clinic and not shooting up on the street.
His offense is public nuisance and panhandling.
Harsher penalties for known addicts committing these antisocial acts would be a good idea.
It's funny that 'the answer' is something that no country has ever done successfully.
It's the second half that's important. Like other forms of public intoxication, just having it in your system while in public is considered endangering the welfare of others, and you go to jail. Which is the real solution.
Those countries that had were pressured by the US to stop. These countries (Morocco, Turkey, Iran ("Persia"), Iraq, Afghanistan) had large addict populations but none of the crime and antisocial behavior we see in the US and UK that's associated with illegal junk and the methadone clinic scam. Where there is grinding poverty, hopelessness, and disease, there is a corresponding market for opiates, but not everyone enjoys them, and to paraphrase Ron Paul, no normal person will suddenly decide to take on a junk habit just because he can without prosecution.
The Swiss had the right idea but did not go far enough, did not prosecute public nuisance junkies.
England's maintenance scheme didn't work because it restricted legal sales and possession to "established addicts" and naturally they diverted their legal supplies, selling to their fellow junkies and to casual users for profit.
If anyone 21+ could buy their heroin over the counter there would be no incentive to sell to others, unless the state ill-advisedly jacked up the price per dose with a tax or pharma companies inflated their prices.
Opiates are extraordinarily inexpensive, with a month's supply costing less than 30 USD retail.
I mean ... it works. I'm an alcoholic, but I keep it on my property.
Precisely.