Is harm reduction too liberal?

I dunno, do you think you can get the investors in the Prison Industrial Complex to accept a less carceral view of drugs without openly accepting any permissive policies will only apply to white people?

It& #39;s not the left who needs prisons filled.
Drug prohibition itself is largely a mechanism to provide a steady supply of private prisons which serve the function of doing an end run around the 13th Amendment.

That& #39;s not the kind of thing leftsts are invested in. I don& #39;t think I can make that appealing to conservatives.
I& #39;m not going to seriously entertain the idea of throwing PoC, or any other marginalized group under the bus so I can find common ground with the stakeholders of modern slavery.

You can& #39;t disentangle carceral responses to drug use from the bigotry motivating them. It ties in.
That& #39;s not partisan hyperbole, it& #39;s just a simple fact. Drug prohibition is primarily targeted at specific minority groups, and even legalization schemes have largely excluded those groups from participation in the legal market.

I& #39;ve seen the arrest statistics in Colorado.
It& #39;s conservatives which remain obstinate about and obstructive towards harm reduction approaches. It& #39;s people on the left who have fought tooth and nail against prohibition and carceral rehab approaches.

We& #39;re the ones handing out needles and crack pipes on the street.
We& #39;ve put ourselves on the line over abd over only to see conservative governments scoff at the evidence based approaches that save lives.

They scoff because we& #39;re solving the problems they claimed only chains and punishment could resolve. We& #39;re getting results and they hate it.
We& #39;re proving that 100 years of prohibitions, arrests, deaths, and countless billions of dollars down the drain didn& #39;t have to happen in the first place.

The reason we see internal disruption now is because we& #39;ve made an impact, and it& #39;s spreading. People see that it works.
You& #39;re going to see a hard push from new faces on the scene that will *demand* you soften your politics or *accomodate* the right, because they can& #39;t beat us head on.

They have to act like our allies and drag the frame of reference slowly away from an organized victory for PWUD.
I went years, through lousy substitution treatments and cold turkey withdrawal, to see a day I& #39;d get a script that works so I could live my life.

This happens to coincide with a sudden eruption of discourse about the problematic leftism in a movement that& #39;s now making progress.
We& #39;ve got safe consumption sites in a growing number if jurisdictions. Safe supply emerging during a pandemic that necessitates we reduce the red tape surrounding substitution programs.

We& #39;ve made more progress in five years than since heroin was prohibited in the early 20th cen
I& #39;m supposed to believe there& #39;s some indication that we& #39;re all doing it wrong? We& #39;re all too fucking lefty and unrealistic and the unprecedented public support for programs that didn& #39;t exist before 4 years ago is evidence we fucked up?

I feel it& #39;s headed in the right direction
Don& #39;t let someone gaslight you into believing that the growing number of people receiving meaningful accomodation and treatment after decades of unrelenting punishment aren& #39;t proof of method.

I was wondering when the trolling would begin. It& #39;s come too far to avoid this shit.
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