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WALLACE: Mayor, you not only want to decriminalize marijuana, you want to decriminalize all drug possession. You say that the better answer isn't (ph) incarceration -- I mean, rather treatment, not incarceration.
BUTTIGIEG: That's right.
WALLACE: -- but isn't the fact that it's illegal to have -- to possess meth and heroin, doesn't that at least in some way, the fact that's illegal, act as a -- some deterrent to actually trying it in the first place?
BUTTIGIEG: Well, I think the main thing we need to focus on is where you have distribution and the -- the kind of harm that's done there. Well, yes, of course, it's important that it remain illegal but --
WALLACE: But you would decriminalize it, so it wouldn't be illegal?
BUTTIGIEG: Possession should not be that dealt through incarceration and - -
WALLACE: But you would say that possession heroin is not illegal?
BUTTIGIEG: It's not going to be dealt with through incarcerations.
WALLACE: But your -- your website says decriminalize. It would not be illegal?
BUTTIGIEG: Yes. Or it could be a misdemeanor.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Trueman
I say decriminalize it, end treatment programs and make it legal to shoot to kill anyone who tries to mug, assault, rob you.
I guarantee that the population of heroin and meth users will drop dramatically.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Trueman
I say decriminalize it, end treatment programs and make it legal to shoot to kill anyone who tries to mug, assault, rob you.
I guarantee that the population of heroin and meth users will drop dramatically.
originally posted by: Justoneman
a reply to: Trueman
I say as long as they have a designated area to get stoned on that where they can't hurt others, nor that they use heavy equipment for the same reason, then we should let em. Set them up a camp and give it away. Then those that are hooked that want to stop, we help them get off. But the rest of us don't need them stealing and assaulting people for a fix. Once they decide to live like that we need to give them an area to do this that is isolated from the rest of us for their and our safety.