“We need to turn drug use into an unwelcome #health scourge battled with #education and #compassion, not punished by incarceration.”
— Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“We need to turn drug use into an unwelcome #health scourge battled with #education and #compassion, not punished by incarceration.”
— Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“We need to turn drug use into an unwelcome #health scourge battled with #education and #compassion, not punished by incarceration.”
— Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a #criminal in #America than during the 13 years of #AlcoholProhibition.”
— Bill Bryson
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a #criminal in #America than during the 13 years of #AlcoholProhibition.”
— Bill Bryson
@morgellona.bsky.socialA BC Court has declared Canada's laws that criminalize "possession for purpose of trafficking" unconstitutional. So much love to Jeremy and Eris. Compassion is our way out of this crisis of death.
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“The chief cause of problems is solutions.”
— Eric Severeid
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“The chief cause of problems is solutions.”
— Eric Severeid
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“The drug war was a bipartisan effort. This rhetoric of law and order deployed by #politicians won elections nationwide, from races for local council seats to the presidency.”
— Dominique DuBois Gilliard
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“The drug war was a bipartisan effort. This rhetoric of law and order deployed by #politicians won elections nationwide, from races for local council seats to the presidency.”
— Dominique DuBois Gilliard
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”
— David Simon
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”
— David Simon
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, #legalize it. #Prohibition is a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
— James Baldwin
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, #legalize it. #Prohibition is a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
— James Baldwin
@critcrim.bsky.socialTomorrow!
The War on Drugs is a War on Us
Speak out against deadly government policy at the Union of BC Municipalities convention. Friday 12:30 PM at Canada Place. Meet at Waterfront Station at 11:30.
@harmreduction.orgContent note: Some stigmatizing language used in coverage.
#HarmReduction #EndTheWarOnDrugs #AI #FlockCameras #CivilLiberties #EndOverdose #FundHarmReduction #OpioidSettlement #OverdoseEpidemic
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social$500 billion dollars per year in the hands of the cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets.”
Read the full blog here:
www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social$500 billion dollars per year in the hands of the cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets.”
Read the full blog here:
www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...
@prohibitionblund1.bsky.social“I sit there on the bench and send these small dealers, who are black, off to prison for years and years and years. And they look at you almost uncomprehendingly. They don’t even know why we’re mad at them.”
— Judge James Ford, Superior Court, Sacramento, California
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“I sit there on the bench and send these small dealers, who are black, off to prison for years and years and years. And they look at you almost uncomprehendingly. They don’t even know why we’re mad at them.”
— Judge James Ford, Superior Court, Sacramento, California
@prohibitionblund2.bsky.social“[One] effect of making drugs #criminal is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs.”
— Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
