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Anonymous's avatar

Funny, but it seems some commentator is trying to blame Mayor Breed for ruining a once great City, yet, she didn't author Prop. 47, or any of the other disasterous policies, and SF's problems predate her by decades. Remember when Mayor Frank Jordan was going to use a "Grid" system to clean up downtown?😂

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El Monstro's avatar

Decriminalization has worked wherever it has been tried.

Prohibition didn't work with alcohol and it certainly won't work with fentanyl.

I guess you can complain about "harm reduction" if you think that drug addicts' lives have no value. Harm reduction saved 3,000 people from overdoses this year.

https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/

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Anonymous's avatar

Yeah, fentanyl and prescription opioids have worked wonders for communities all across the country. And, let's all learn a lesson from history, China lost both "Opium Wars."🤢 (Nauseous.)

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El Monstro's avatar

There are 10 M high functioning opiate users in the US. Alcohol and tobacco both kill far more people than opium ever did.

If you are in favor of banning alcohol and tobacco I would say that you are at least internally consistent. Do you favor their ban or not? And if you don't why want to ban a drug that is far less dangerous?

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