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Canada proposes treatment over jail for minor drug crimes

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By Michel COMTE and Andrew FLEMING

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Treatment is already provided to inmates.

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Treatment should be the first priority. Treat drug addiction as a public health problem rather than a criminal problem. The criminal justice system should be a last resort.

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Wow, Canada actually taking the logical approach to addiction, and dealing with it as a health issue, rather than continuing the stupidity that is trying to fix a health problem with prison. That has literally never worked in the history of humanity. Anyone still pushing imprisonment for drugs must be of the lowest 10th percentile of intelligence within humanity, because anyone not the dumbest human on earth can clearly see that the prison system has not only failed to stop drug use, drug use is at its highest ever. But yeah, let's keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different outcome, right? Because that's what the smart people do, right?

Good on Canada. Follow the science and the data. Enough of listening to the hysterical low-intelligence people bleating on about imprisonment for drug use. They are clearly useless human beings not worth listening to anymore.

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Anyone still pushing imprisonment for drugs must be of the lowest 10th percentile of intelligence within humanity

That means the Japanese. Illegal drug use, including of marijuana, lands you jail. The vast majority of the Japanese population have no problem with that.

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That means the Japanese. Illegal drug use, including of marijuana, lands you jail. The vast majority of the Japanese population have no problem with that.

It's outdated thinking. Dinosaurs.

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Canada leading the way.

Canada is one of the world's great basket cases when it comes to illegal drug abuse. As the policies have become accommodative and progressive, the worse the situation has become over many years now, with overdoses and crime at record-high levels and growing higher, higher, higher.

minor drug crimes the government said disproportionately impact indigenous and Black offenders.

The crimes "impact" anyone who chooses to inject poison in their bodies, no matter their colour.

Canada's policymaking morons need to visit the safe and clean streets of cities in Japan, or South Korea or Hong Kong if they want to learn how to eliminate illegal drugs and deal with the people who abuse them.

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