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🕑 Added 2020-07-18 12:24:55 +0000 UTCFinland explained himself in the comic, but in 2010 Denmark started giving heroine to drug addicts for free and it was such a huge success that it has continued until today. Because of this Norway has started experimenting with it too.
It’s a lot cheaper for society because the addicts commit less crime, they don’t have to spend money on drugs so instead they spend it on things that are more healthy for them so they don’t end up on the hospital as often, they have to take the drugs in special clinics so there’s no chance of them taking an overdose or using dirty needles and spreading diseases among each other, there’s always staff ready to help them if they want to get off the drugs, and it’s a lot more effective way to help more people because addicts come into contact with professionals who want to help them before they even think about getting help themselves.
Nobody wants to be homeless or an addict. Though they often end up getting involved in criminality because of their situation, the act of being homeless or an addict is not a crime in itself and the people deserve help like anyone else.
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Dennis Værum
It probably also have something to do with it being good for business :( Adam Ruins Everything - The Shocking Way Private Prisons Make Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqQa_0gM6hg
John Weiss
Remember: We criminalize addicts and the homeless here in the US because we assume that the homeless and drug addicts are ALWAYS black [or more generally, not white]. This assumption that whites are never homeless and never get addicted to drugs is actually intentionally promoted in an attempt to give the govt. an excuse to arrest as many African Americans as possible.
