NetQuarterLatte t1_iuggs6w wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:18 AM

Reply to comment by againblahisnothere in NYC’s new subway crime crackdown is underway but NYers are not convinced it will work by PichuLovy

It's kind of amazing that De Blasio and others in the party believe that normalizing severe drug abuse is somehow a progressive policy.

In reality, they are implementing policies to bring back the 1800s, when as much as 1 out of 200 people in the US was addicted to an opioid. Then it took us almost a century (with drug trades by colonial powers, opium wars and more) to realize the damage such drug abuse can cause to a society.

There's a valid point on not criminalizing weed and such that I strongly agree with.

However, I disagree with the extreme we have today: allowing severe drug abuse to the point of causing damage to our society (which we are just starting to witness) is anything but progressive. This is regressive as fuck (1800s kind of regressive).

Grass8989 t1_iugi2rc wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:29 AM

Not wanting to normalize hardcore drug use has now become a “right wing” ideology.

wherearemypaaants t1_iugms80 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:16 AM

The point is that severe drug addiction is not the purview of the police and arresting people for low level drug crimes is an enormous waste of your tax dollars and police resources.