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News: California to legalize heroin facilities for addicts?
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California to legalize heroin facilities for addicts?
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A lawmaker wants to allow California addicts to use heroin, crack and other drugs at supervised facilities to cut down on overdoses, joining several U.S. cities considering establishing the nation's first legal drug-injection sites.
The proposal introduced Tuesday comes as San Francisco, Seattle, New York City and Ithaca, New York, weigh ordinances to set up the facilities, citing the success of a site operating in Canada since 2003.
But law enforcement has opposed the move in California, saying it will worsen addiction. And lawmakers seemed reluctant to support it, postponing a committee vote.
Though federal authorities have taken a hands-off approach to states' legalization of marijuana, it's not clear how they would respond to facilities permitting users to shoot up hard drugs.
The bill from Democratic Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman would make it legal for local and state health departments to allow the use of controlled substances in clinics that would offer medical intervention.
Supporters say the facilities would reduce deaths and transmissions of HIV and hepatitis C.
"Addiction is a health care issue, and I think it's high time we started treating it as a public health issue, versus a criminal issue," Eggman said. "This bill is one step to be able to address the heroin addiction and epidemic of overdoses that we're having in our country."
Advocates of drug policy reform point to the success of North America's only supervised injection facility, established 13 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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READ MORE: http://abc7.com/politics/california-...n-use/1279983/
Hmmmm, thoughts?
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My city already has a heroin problem, this would probably only make it worse 
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New York state in the 80's teas. This is going to be a mess.
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Heroin & crack? 
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That would be a disaster...
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i honestly really wanna try heroin as long as it was like an adequate dosage / preferably w/ a doctor administering it so pretty much just having them give me morphine at my discretion
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I'm liberal but not this liberal 
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Originally posted by qurl
i honestly really wanna try heroin as long as it was like an adequate dosage / preferably w/ a doctor administering it so pretty much just having them give me morphine at my discretion
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Don't do it
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well, i will say that the "war on drugs" is really bad in a lot of ways, and sending people to prison is definitely not going to make them better in any way, so i guess this is at least a better option than that.
actually, one thing that people don't know about heroin: a lot of it starts with doctors making a mistake, not the addict. doctors often put people on older pain medications that's basically the same as street heroin, and they prescribe these medications for a long enough time to make the person dependent on them. so then, once that prescription runs out, the person is already addicted to heroin, and then they absolutely need their dose, so they go out and get heroin from the street. so heroin addiction is definitely not as simple as "those dumb druggies that need to be put away" or whatever. that makes me hesitant to take a strong position here
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:/ hmmm that's...interesting
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Originally posted by rivers
I'm liberal but not this liberal |
Same
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Originally posted by Wonderland
Don't do it
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i don't have an addictive personality, but i, like, get the concern
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Originally posted by qurl
i don't have an addictive personality, but i, like, get the concern
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Okay sis, just double checking.
You could always just play it safe and try listening to Pure Heroine first
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Originally posted by Wonderland
Okay sis, just double checking.
You could always just play it safe and try listening to Pure Heroine first
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are u dealing, Wonderland???????????
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Originally posted by qurl
i don't have an addictive personality, but i, like, get the concern
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Say goodbye to your nose then
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It's a trap, they're trying to take us out.
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