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This is what drug prohibition is like.
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The Case for Legalizing and Safely Producing All Drugs
A farmer gathers his cropâs production The argument for legalizing and safely producing all drugs is gaining traction, driven by a mix of public health and economic concerns. The current approach to drug policy has failed to stem the tide of overdose deaths, with over 600,000 people having lost their lives to acute drug overdoses. To put that in perspective, this is more than the combined combatâŠ
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âThe âwar on drugsâ may be understood to a significant extent as a war on people. Its impact has been greatest on those who live in poverty, and it frequently overlaps with discrimination directed at marginalised groups, minoritiesand Indigenous Peoples. In our reporting and experience, we have found that such discriminatory impact is a common element across drug policies with regard to the widest range of human rights, including the right to personal liberty; freedom from torture, ill-treatment and forced labour; fair trial rights; the right to health, including access to essential medicines, palliative care, comprehensive drug prevention and education, drug treatment, and harm reduction; the right to adequate housing; freedom from discrimination and the right to equal treatment before the law; right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment; cultural rights and freedoms of expression, religion, assembly and association. Globally, drug control has had massive costs for the dignity, humanity and freedom of people of African descent, with reports showing that people of African descent face disproportionate and unjust law enforcement interventions, arrests and incarceration for drug-related offences. In various countries, the âwar on drugsâ has been more effective as a system of racial control than as a tool to reduce drug markets. Policing interventions based on racial profiling remain widespread, whilst access to evidence-based treatment and harm reduction for people of African descent remains critically low. Around the world, women who use drugs face significant stigma and discrimination in accessing harm reduction programmes, drug dependence treatment and basic health care. Although one in three people who use drugs are women, women constitute only one in five people in treatment. Women are also disproportionately affected by criminalisation and incarceration, with 35% of women in prison worldwide having been convicted of a drug-related offence compared to 19% of men. The causes of womenâs interaction with the criminal justice system in relation to drugs are complex, often linked to other factors such as poverty and coercion, and may reflect systemic gender inequality in society more broadly. Of note, most women in prison for drug related offences have little education. Under international law, States that have not yet abolished the death penalty may only impose capital punishment for the âmost serious crimesâ, meaning crimes of extreme gravity involving intentional killing. Drug offences clearly do not meet this threshold. However, drug-related offences are still punishable by death in over 30 countries, and human rights experts have raised concerns about evidence of its discriminatory impact on individuals belonging to minorities. Everyone without exception has the right to life-saving harm reduction interventions, which are essential for the protection of the right to health of people who use drugs. However, according to UN data, only 1 in 8 people with drug dependence have access to appropriate treatment, and the coverage of harm reduction services remains very low. The situation is particularly critical for women, LGBTIQ+ persons, and other marginalised groups, for whom harm reduction and treatment services may not be adapted or respond to their specific needs. Women and LGBTIQ+ persons also face even higher levels of stigma, including self-stigma, and discrimination than men who use drugs.
As the world grows older, drug use among people over 65 has also increased. The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the health and well-being of older persons, and studies show an increased use of pain relievers, tranquillizers, and sedatives among this age group. Older drug users are also more often using the dark web, social media, and online forums to obtain illicit substances resulting in a rise of drug-related deaths among older populations. The criminalisation of substances traditionally used by Indigenous Peoples such as the coca leaf can also result in the suppression, undermining and marginalization of traditional and indigenous knowledge systems and medicine, which has wide-ranging health impacts and is rooted in discriminatory hierarchies and conceptions. Forced eradication of crops, including through the aerial spraying of highly hazardous pesticides, can cause serious harm to the environment and clean water, as well as to the health and welfare of Indigenous communities. Indigenous Peoples that might be affected by these and other drug control operations must be meaningfully consulted, and guarantees should be given that their lives, cultural practices, lands and natural resources are not violated. Criminal laws and the punitive use of administrative and other sanctions stigmatise already marginalised populations. Criminalisation results in significant barriers to access to health services (including those for HIV and palliative care) and in other human rights violations. As called for by the UN system Common Position on drug-related matters, drug use and possession for personal use should be decriminalised as a matter of urgency. Drug use or dependence are never a sufficient justification for detaining a person. Compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centres need to be closed and replaced with voluntary, evidence-informed, and rights-based health and social services in the community.
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Have your medical caretaker forget (or your medical whumper âforgetâ) to numb whumpee before a minor but painful operation.
They have to follow up with a sedative to help whumpee âcalm down,â blissfully unaware (or cruelty reveling) that theyâre still in excruciating pain.
Whumpee is still in pain, but theyâre too confused and exhausted by the sedative to communicate that to their caretakers.
#whump#whump prompt#angst#medical whump#medical neglect#medical malpractice#sedatives#analgesics#nonconsensual drugging#based on my most recent surgical exploits. bc apparently theyâre supposed to numb you locally before a nerve block???#now it makes sense why the anesthesiologist was so annoyed that I was crying. she literally forgor to give me lidocaine aldjtbdsjwjjajs#she was training a nurse how to do it and it was busy I forgive her. but realizing it wasnât supposed to hurt like hell#and then have me spaced out while trying to meet w the surgeon was not the intended effect.#versed and me get along like a prohibition brewer and moonshine#I remember agonizing pain and then nothing. and then I woke up in recovery.
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#drug users#prohibition#war on drugs#stigma#tough love#recovery industry#substance use#overdose crisis#adulterated drugs#fentanyl#marginalized communities#social isolation#social exclusion#carceral mental healthcare#carceral social work#carceral logics#carceral recovery models#exploitation#disability justice#trauma#mass incarceration#psych abolition#prison abolition#antipsych#harm reduction#memes#solidarity#community care#homelessness#mutual aid
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every time i try to explain drug prohibition to my mom it goes like this:
me: they made these class of drugs illegal because of racism and fear of abnormality first and foremost- mom: and because a lot of people were getting addicted and dying from overdoses me: no, actually- mom: but that's what happened!
#overdoses happen with prescribed drugs for many reasons... usually either through unintentional interactions with other drugs -#- or intentional suicide. overdoses w/ illegal drugs is an issue of unpredictable dosing#prior to drug prohibition addictions did occur but ... for lack of a better term... fell into the category of 'functional addict' when it-#-came to prescriptions outside of something like alcohol#prohibition turns addiction from something that can be manageable with support into 5 other maladaptive coping strategies#because being an addict to illegal drugs means having to pay a -lot- more money and also having to dodge the law while youre at it#plus the demonization of addiction itself. you're essentially creating an environment where someone HAS to go to extremes to avoid-#-getting in trouble + making it even HARDER to get support because people treat you like scum and a criminal#that aside... have you SEEN how the US government reacts to health crises???#it's never been about civilian safety. look at the track record when it came to disasters. diseases. poverty. product safety standards??#if the gov had people's safety in mind they wouldve listened when told to treat addiction as an illness and not a criminal offense
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My 12 year old sister is being taught in public school that vaping is WORSE for your health than smoking and I cannot express how unbelievably angry I am that they are straight up LYING to these children!! Like by all means I donât want children vaping but if you have to lie to get them to not vape? Thatâs a serious issue. If drug education programs have to rely upon misinformation to push their agenda, then maybe we need to rethink the entire agenda.
#drugs mention#war on drugs#drugs#drugs cw#vaping#drug education#public school#prohibition#harm reduction
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Au O'Faeries
Where even blood runs green
Le O'Faeries est, dans notre histoire fictive, un cabaret prestigieux situĂ© Ă Germantown oĂč Magdalena danse et travaille en tant que faerie. Tenue par la mafia irlandaise du secteur, la rĂ©putation du lieu est aussi Ă©tincelante que sulfureuse, s'y mĂȘlent des hauts dignitaires mais aussi des individus ayant fait fortune dans la pĂšgre de Philly.
Sur place, vous pouvez rĂ©server la meilleure table Ă proximitĂ© de la scĂšne pour ne rien manquer des spectacles de chants, de danse et d'agilitĂ©, mais vous pouvez Ă©galement louer une loge d'oĂč vous pourrez dominer les lieux sans ĂȘtres vus. Dans ce dĂ©cor tout fait de velours et du vert irlandais, l'intimitĂ© est reine, et de magnifiques Faeries scintillantes dans leurs robes Ă sequins Ă©meraude viendront vous servir leurs prĂ©cieux nectar avec une grĂące toute fĂ©Ă©rique comme si elles sortaient tout droit des contes celtes.
Prenez garde, cependant, Ă ne pas laisser leur irrĂ©sistible poudre de fĂ©e vous monter Ă la tĂȘte...
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#all in green#irish mythology#irish#faerie#green#green aesthetic#sailing to philadelphia#cabaret musical#cabaret#crime#mafia#irish mafia#philadelphia#prohibition#fiction#nos fics#writers on tumblr#Ă©criture#30s#books & libraries#Ă©meraude#magdalena gonzalez#wattpad#original story#illicit drugs
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We had advocacy day today for school, where we go see the state senate and house in session, and lemme tell you if you ever want to lose hope for your fellow man that is definitely the place to go
#it was quite literally disgusting#just a bunch of people with cavalier making decisions people can die from#a bill was put forward that would make it illegal for the government to prohibit landlords from not accepting section 8 vouchers#and this fuck starts out his speech 'now this is a fine bill' and i felt like throwing up#and then when i went to talk to one of the sponsors of this SNAP bill#they literally didn't know if kids could get food at this very moment if their head of household has a drug charge#like they didn't know what the current state of SNAP was for the state despite bringing forth a bill to change it#that's important to know!!!!!!!!!!!
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The purpose of DARE is not to teach information about drugs. The purpose is to convince non-users that they're superior so theyâll continue to support giving more power to the police.
Anyone who's honest about drug use would say that people use drugs because society is designed to be such hell that the only way to cope is to use drugs.
But if children were taught that, their natural response would be "then let's stop making society hell". The ruling class wouldn't like that.
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Is Drug Prohibition Compatible with American Ideals?
The American Flag is a symbol of the efforts of the people to form a more perfect union with their government. Drug prohibition, the legislative effort to outlaw the production, distribution, possession, and consumption of certain substances, stands in stark contrast to many core Western and American ideals. As the West prides itself on values such as personal freedom, limited governmentâŠ
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I've started a NEW CANNABIS HEMP BLOG and will post to it each M-F. I only have 10 post on it right now. There is a FREE MARIJUANA MUSIC MP3 DOWNLOAD at the bottom of every post. Please share this.
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#polls#alcohol#just to be clear im not against drug users themselves and am against criminalization of any drug including prohibition#its jsut wild to me to see ppl defens alcohol with all the harm it does and the way it ruins lives#like any other drug (not weed)#hmm how to put this im not against usage or the person and yet..i dont enjoy drugs themselves bc of what they do to people etcetcetcetcetce#just fascinating to me how one of the most widely used and dangerous and addictive drugs is alcohol and yet#its seen as and marketed (obviously on purpose) as a fun party relaxing chill ppl thing#i dont enjoy the psychological manipulation of the alcohol industry as a concept#which obviously we dont see with like heroin obviously#just interesting to see ppl defend drug makers when it ruins peoples lives and yet it does make sense seeing as#its such an ingrained part of regular life which i think is what makes alcohol so different than other drugs#v v interesting concept i dont think im phrasing this exactly how i want bc im not hm#im the give the ppl a clean needle type rather than sending them off to rehab type#bc that should always come of someoens own volition and yet the casualness of alcohol i think is very insidious#heroins bad ppl know heroins bad they know its addictive but alcohol is fun! its exciting and makes things fun and better!#all up until it doesnt#v interesting thing as its own concept in general i guess#but i wanted to know for this site itself ig#im against crimizlaiton policing wtcetcetc eyeroll i just think obviosily what they do to the mind and a life is insidious ovviously#but i also dont enjoy concepts of people looking down on the person themselves i really do think its possible to see the drug itself as the#problem and addiction as a coping or symptom of sonething else or even its own thing etc this would get to long whatever
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#Autistic#being autistic#autistic experiences#autistic adult#exploitation#substance use#prohibition#abuse#cuckooing#homelessness#war on drugs#ableism#alienation#isolation#carceral logics#carceral mental healthcare#vulnerable adults#apathy#loneliness#neoliberal competitive individualism strips us of humanity#ableist violence#neurophobia#performative allyship#psych abuse#psych survivor#smear campaign#carceral housing#homeless#disability justice#manipulative
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if they could meet/talk to one person, dead or alive, who would it be? what would they say to them?
what do they have as their phone background?
favorite place theyâve ever been? what made it their favorite?
+ one random q of your choice!
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THE REAL IMPORTANT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS
If they could meet/talk to one person, dead or alive, who would it be? Â what would they say to them?
The only person that Vex would ever wish to talk to again is his caregiver, Lila. She was somehow very toxic with her old-fashioned manners (aka boys learn only when they are beaten or spanked), but she was probably the only person who had understood Vex like a person. She had encouraged him despite his violence and his rudeness, and she had pushed him to use his brain and reveal his mental capacities. Lila was the only source of comfort in his life, so I guess he would first insult her (because she died suddenly, and he wasn't aware of her cancer), and second well... I think he would hug her tightly.Â
What do they have as their phone background?
Absolutely nothing, except the usual and first background you might get when you buy a new phone. He sometimes switched to torture scenes he had captured here and there, whenever he was in the mood. However, Vex tends to change his phone very often, so those photos are either lost with it, or simply somewhere else on his cloud.Â
Favorite place theyâve ever been? Â what made it their favorite?
The only place he tolerates the most is actually the Venus Bar in the Red District. Vex had never left his country and had never traveled at all. He was born in poverty, and he managed to attend a medical school before eventually dropping everything.Â
The Venus Bar is the only place where he could do his three favorite things: getting drugged, messing with people and fucking strangers.Â
#; tigermcth#âplaying all the aces on the table ( đđđąđ )#âheadcanon ( đđđ )#âcharacter study ( đđđ )#; Vex could have said the Amazon Club but alas... drug is prohibited there#; he's a mess gfusydg#; and he only cared about one person in his life for sure so Lila is always his choice
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