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re: Colorado De-felonizes Schedule I and II Personal Drug Possession
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:11 am to fr33manator
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:11 am to fr33manator
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I don’t think the best course of action or use of money is incarcerating them and then giving them a felony. When they get out it’s basically a given they’ll start using without being able to get gainful employment.
We have generations of people who are unemployable for drug charges. It is sad. There is no second chance. There is only a life of drugs and crime because they cannot get a respectable job.
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:11 am to rt3
This won’t increase heroin use. That’s such a dumb position to take. A drug being illegal does absolutely nothing to persuade a person from using.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:16 am to Wtodd
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You think I'm a liberal??? You're painfully dumber than previously thought
I'm not the one who is arguing against shrinking government.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:21 am to Brazos
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This won’t increase heroin use. That’s such a dumb position to take. A drug being illegal does absolutely nothing to persuade a person from using.
Shocking that the Colorado governor has the exact opposite position when it come to guns.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:25 am to ColoradoAg03
If jail were the answer to addiction we’d have solved it already
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:27 am to ColoradoAg03
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HB19-1263, "defelonizes" drug possession for substances such as heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and most other illicit drugs.
Fentanyl is NOT to be fricked with. It can put you in the hospital for simply coming into contact with it.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:39 am to rt3
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hope every first responder in Colorado has a whole cache of NARCAN on them... they're going to need it
Because the threat of a felony vs a misdemeanor is what was really stopping everyone debating trying heroin and fentanyl
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:40 am to ColoradoAg03
This is an idea whose time has come. The war on drugs has 50 years of failure to back it up. To keep doing the same thing is the definition of insanity.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:40 am to ColoradoAg03
Good. Why are you acting like this is a bad thing?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:41 am to Ed Osteen
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Because the threat of a felony vs a misdemeanor is what was really stopping everyone debating trying heroin and fentanyl
But first responders in Colorado do carry narcan.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:42 am to JohnnyKilroy
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I'm not the one who is arguing against shrinking government.
You serious Clark? Legalizing drugs will INCREASE the Government at every level.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:42 am to ColoradoAg03
I'm for this. The for profit prisons are not.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:44 am to TH03
Oh for sure, first responders have multiple doses to administer or even give out. Some states have Naloxone as a open script that anyone can purchase from pharmacies
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 10:46 am
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:48 am to ColoradoAg03
I see a rapid spike in dangerous drug usage.
Hopefully, the benefits of reduced prosecution/incarceration costs in dollars and effects on lives will be worth the trade off.
I hope there are enough drug treatment programs ready to handle the explosion of demand.
Also, watch for an increase in other crimes. The predicted reduction in violent crime from decriminalization may be hard to track, as there will be competing forces at play, but property crimes will increase.
Hopefully, the benefits of reduced prosecution/incarceration costs in dollars and effects on lives will be worth the trade off.
I hope there are enough drug treatment programs ready to handle the explosion of demand.
Also, watch for an increase in other crimes. The predicted reduction in violent crime from decriminalization may be hard to track, as there will be competing forces at play, but property crimes will increase.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:49 am to Wtodd
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But it isn't.....more and more people will now try these drugs bc they'll only get a fine.....
Literally no one in history has been offered heroin and weighed fine amounts vs jail time as the deciding factor for saying yes or no.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:59 am to Muthsera
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Literally no one in history has been offered heroin and weighed fine amounts vs jail time as the deciding factor for saying yes or no.
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about.
First time drug experimenters often become social drug users who often become regular drug users who often become substance abusers who often become hardcore addicts, all based on nothing more than a mental calculus that includes possible legal penalties if caught.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:00 am to Ed Osteen
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Some states have Naloxone as a open script that anyone can purchase from pharmacies
Yeah I believe Colorado has that.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:01 am to Jimbeaux
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I see a rapid spike in dangerous drug usage
Right, because the only reason people aren’t sticking a needle in their arm is because it is illegal.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:03 am to Jimbeaux
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all based on nothing more than a mental calculus that includes possible legal penalties if caught.
Are you high?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:15 am to ColoradoAg03
I see the Louisiana legislature doing something similar in about 2097.
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