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'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's not the kind of thing leftsts are invested in. I don't think I can make that appealing to conservatives.

I'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't disentangle carceral responses to drug use from the bigotry motivating them. It ties in.

That's not partisan hyperbole, it'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've seen the arrest statistics in Colorado.

It's conservatives which remain obstinate about and obstructive towards harm reduction approaches. It's people on the left who have fought tooth and nail against prohibition and carceral rehab approaches.

We're the ones handing out needles and crack pipes on the street.

We'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're solving the problems they claimed only chains and punishment could resolve. We're getting results and they hate it.

We're proving that 100 years of prohibitions, arrests, deaths, and countless billions of dollars down the drain didn't have to happen in the first place.

The reason we see internal disruption now is because we've made an impact, and it's spreading. People see that it works.

You'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'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'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's now making progress.

We'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've made more progress in five years than since heroin was prohibited in the early 20th cen

I'm supposed to believe there's some indication that we're all doing it wrong? We're all too fucking lefty and unrealistic and the unprecedented public support for programs that didn't exist before 4 years ago is evidence we fucked up?

I feel it's headed in the right direction

Don't let someone gaslight you into believing that the growing number of people receiving meaningful accomodation and treatment after decades of unrelenting punishment aren't proof of method.

I was wondering when the trolling would begin. It's come too far to avoid this shit.