Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
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Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
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#2>Representative Thomas Burditt: “As everybody knows, the war on drugs is lost, pretty much. It’s time to go down a new road.”
There is a sane Republican! Hurrah!
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#3What a wonderful world it will be when we help our sick instead of imprison them. I am looking forward to the rest of the world following suit. I'd also like to add this is a great time for US democracy to shine, as it is through statehood that things like this can be tested on a small scale, before rolling out to 'prod'.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#4What a wonderful world it will be when we help our sick instead of imprison them. I am looking forward to the rest of the world following suit. I'd also like to add this is a great time for US democracy to shine, as it is through statehood that things like this can be tested on a small scale, before rolling out to 'prod'.
I'm not an American but I'm equally as happy to hear this as one.
I'd like to argue as a Brit that we did treat these people as sick until Nixon's "war on drugs" made UN policies that the rest of the world had to treat them as criminals.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#5>Representative Thomas Burditt: “As everybody knows, the war on drugs is lost, pretty much. It’s time to go down a new road.” There is a sane Republican! Hurrah!
As a resident and commnications director/volunteer for a couple of campaigns, I've learned a Republican in Vermont is almost always like a Democrat in any other state.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#6I really wish it wasn't called "War on drugs". One of the things I dislike about America, as an outsider, is their tendency to call everything "War on X", which essentially makes everything us vs them.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#7I really wish it wasn't called "War on drugs". One of the things I dislike about America, as an outsider, is their tendency to call everything "War on X", which essentially makes everything us vs them.
"War On Drugs" is a term mostly used by critics of US drug policy these days.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#8>Representative Thomas Burditt: “As everybody knows, the war on drugs is lost, pretty much. It’s time to go down a new road.” There is a sane Republican! Hurrah!
As a resident and commnications director/volunteer for a couple of campaigns, I've learned a Republican in Vermont is almost always like a Democrat in any other state.
Living in Europe, never having set a foot in the US, I take the bait: what is a Democrat like in Vermont then ?
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a resident and commnications director/volunteer for a couple of campaigns, I've learned a Republican in Vermont is almost always like a Democrat in any other state.
Living in Europe, never having set a foot in the US, I take the bait: what is a Democrat like in Vermont then ?
Bernie Sanders (Independent - VT) is the nation's only socialist Senator.
Re: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
#10What a wonderful world it will be when we help our sick instead of imprison them. I am looking forward to the rest of the world following suit. I'd also like to add this is a great time for US democracy to shine, as it is through statehood that things like this can be tested on a small scale, before rolling out to 'prod'.
Is this sarcasm ? Because the rest of the world http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d... is not waiting for the US the show the way and, Russia being the exception, the prison industry isn't as strong as it is in the US.