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Earlier today I blogged about the ACLU questionnaire that Kamala had filled out in 2019. One of the ACLU’s biggest priorities is legalizing crime. While Kamala doesn’t agree to commit to freeing 50% of all federal prisoners, she appears to play ball on a proposal to decriminalize all drugs.
“Since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue (through treatment and other programming), will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?”
Kamala’s campaign checked the ‘Yes’ box which it didn’t for other questions it couldn’t commit to.
The response (which reads like Kamala herself writing it) begins with legalizing marijuana but then concludes with “and throughout my career I have supported treating drug addiction as a public health issue, focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration for drug-related offenses. Both of my Back-on-Track programs, made it a priority to connect individuals with substance abuse treatment as part of diversion and re-entry programming, in addition to employment.”
What that gibberish means is that Kamala pushes ‘diversion’ programs. In New York and other cities, diversion programs became a revolving door that led to the endless crime wave we’re in now.
Kamala had a front row seat to that during her own experiment with trading prison time for courses.
Alexander Izaguirre was enrolled in ‘Back on Track’: a Kamala program to expunge felony convictions for criminals in exchange for attending some classes. Izaguirre, who had already mugged another woman, was picked for the program by Kamala. Even while he was enrolled in the program, the illegal alien thug mugged another woman, and then rammed her with a car, fracturing her skull.
And Kamala’s proposal to go along with the ACLU and decriminalize drugs was tried in Oregon.
In 2019, 280 people died of a drug overdose in Oregon. Fatalities rose every year after, more than tripling by 2022, when 956 died. And last year, even more people died, according to preliminary data. Each month the number has been higher than the previous year, reaching 628 in June. The state is still compiling data for 2023, but if the trends continue, the total would reach 1,250 deaths from an overdose.
“On average, more than 90 Oregonians die every month from overdoses.”
Kamala’s proposal would not only do that to America, it would cripple the ability for federal prosecutors to go after organized crime and cartels.
Imagine overdose deaths in America quadrupling.
What’s the basis for the claim that overdose deaths will quadruple? Have you looked at statistics pre- and post- in places that have decriminalized drug use? Have overdose deaths quadrupled? Here’s a hint: you are a lazy journalist and a liar to boot.
it’s amazing what reading can do
“In 2019, 280 people died of a drug overdose in Oregon. Fatalities rose every year after, more than tripling by 2022, when 956 died. And last year, even more people died, according to preliminary data. Each month the number has been higher than the previous year, reaching 628 in June. The state is still compiling data for 2023, but if the trends continue, the total would reach 1,250 deaths from an overdose.”
Wow. Smart! Your read and everything? So you read that overdose deaths in Oregon have been rising, so you deduced to report that the reason is that Oregon decriminalized drugs.
But you didn’t read any more than that, did you? Did you read about Alabama’s overdose deaths in the same period?
“Alabama has experienced an alarming increase in the number of fentanyl-related overdose deaths in recent years—from 121 in 2018, to 193 in 2019, and to 428 in 2020. Preliminary numbers show 830 Alabama resident deaths in 2021 and 835 deaths in 2022 related to this powerful drug.”
How about other states in this wonderful country of ours? If you had read some, you would realize that the rise in overdose deaths happened across the nation, so it has NOTHING to do with decriminalization in Oregon, you ignorant, lazy, dishonest nitwit.
Yeah, decriminalizing drugs in Oregon didn’t have anything to do with overdose deaths..
Idiot.
The main reason for drug overdose deaths is ‘drug prohibition’, simple as that!
Most OD deaths are due to unknown doses and unknown substances laced into the drugs.
Legalize drugs, (I mean full legalization, not some half ass decriminalization scheme) and most OD deaths end.
If you buy drugs from medical manufacturers, you’ll know exactly whats in them. No suprise fentanyl.
Could another possible reason for deaths increasing nationwide be the decrease in Border Patrol enforcement along the border (they were diverted to process people)? This allowed more drugs to be smuggled across and be more available to people throughout the US.
Two things can be true. Decriminalizing drugs means more drug deaths. More drugs available nationwide means more drug deaths.
Between 2018 and 2021, drug overdose deaths among TN residents increased consistently.
(https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/pdo/death-report/2022_Tennessee_Drug_Overdose_Deaths.pdf)
According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, the total number of opioid-involved overdose deaths in Georgia increased by 302 percent from 2010 to 2022.
Overdose deaths rose everywhere. Have NOTHING to do with criminalization.
Great news.
L:egalizing drugs doesn’t lead to rising drug overdoses.
You should probably hurry to Oregon and tell the Democrat state leaders this because they just recriminalized drugs, over decriminalizing drugs, because they blamed drug legalization for overdoses.
The bill passed by massive margins.
But be sure and tell these people who lost children how wrong and stupid they are
Nice deflection. You’re a real champ at it.
Your claim was that legalizing drugs leads to a quadrupling of overdoses. That, as anyone who can read can check, is a lie. You can read, so you know it’s a lie.
But your compassion for the families of those who have died is truly admirable. Not self-serving at all. I wonder what you would say to the families of those who have died in Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, etc. You’ll tell them that their loved ones didn’t really die, because drugs in those states are illegal, right?
Full legalization will greatly reduce overdose deaths. As most , or at least a significant portions of OD deaths are due to laced drugs and unknown doses of active drug.
Therefor, full legalization would eliminate those deaths overnight as medically and professionally produced drugs don’t have any mystery ingredients(fentanyl).
Plus this is the land of the free. We shouldn’t be imposing on people what to take or don’t take and telling them how to run their lives.
Do you have something against freedom Mr Greenfield?
Mr Greenfield, if you really think we are the ‘land of the free’, then you should support legalizing all drugs yesterday!
Admit one thing. I don’t think you are capable but I’ll try.
If street drugs were fully legal.(and I mean fully legal, not just decriminalized), wouldn’t the OD deaths due to fentanyl laced drugs drop to zero overnight? Wouldn’t the OD deaths due to people taking unknown doses end overnight with proffesionally manufactured drugs?
Now answer that one question honestly if you can. I don’t think you can!
Now that is just one of the many, many good reasons to end this insane drug war. The benefits are endless to ending prohibition.
Yeah, well, there’s a lot of Jigroes in in Georgia.
𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁❟ 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿! 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸❟ 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲｡ 𝗮𝘀 𝗶’𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲❟ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹’𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗾 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂｡
Instead of spewing out insults at me, why don’t you specify where I am wrong?
So if Mr Greenfields “peanut” has a higher IQ than me, why did I just mop the floor so to speak with Greenfields head?
So spill it! What did I specifically say that is illogiclal? Or is it that you only know insults?
“Kamala’s proposal would not only do that to America, it would cripple the ability for federal prosecutors to go after organized crime and cartels.”
One has to wonder why leftists are so interested in doing things that would make life easier for the cartels. Being able to smuggle drugs and illegals into this country so easily has got to give the cartels lots of discretionary income.
it’s a real mystery alright
If you cared about bringing down the cartels, you’d favor full legalization of all drugs.
But that won’t happen, you hate freedom too much!
As the old 70’s Anti Drugs as said WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?
I accidently found this page and accidently read the comments. I am appalled by people’s language. and the idea of decriminalizing drugs because drugs will so much better. California made marijuana legal. The small growers were immediately overthrown by the Russian and Mexican cartels in California.. What makes anyone think that drugs being legal wouldn’t be taken over by the same cartels bringing in the same drugs we have now. I appreciated your article. How did these “strange” (politely) people even get to make such comment? Keep writing and ignore them !!!