Minus the used needles and other debris that litter many of them. It’s a sad state that that’s the best place people with drug problems can go, but it seems they don’t have anywhere else to go.
It’s just not where I want to bring my kid to hangout.
The vast majority of the parks I've been to in the US have been clean and well kept up, even ones in the higher-crime areas of town.
> Singapore's top diplomat in the UK, Michael Teo, defended Singapore's harsh drug laws by pointing to the country's lower rates for drug use.
"8.2% of the UK population are cannabis abusers; in Singapore, it is 0.005%. For ecstasy, the figures are 1.8% for the UK and 0.003% for Singapore; and for opiates—such as heroin, opium, and morphine - 0.9% for the UK and 0.005% for Singapore," claimed Teo. "We do not have traffickers pushing drugs openly in the streets, nor do we need to run needle exchange centers."
Not exactly aligned with Western countries of human rights.
And wow are you really advocating execution of people with addiction and mental health issues that use drugs?
I wouldn’t execute drug addicts. But their pushers? Line-em right up!
But sure, if you have an alcohol executive cutting their wine with methanol, pushing it to middle school kids and breaking interstate laws shipping laws to evade enforcement, like you did in prohibition... screw him.
Do you advocate the death sentence for drug company executives as well?
The Dr. and pharmacists who enabled the opioid crisis as well.
Period.
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Junkies would get little red sharps disposal containers, and bring it back those back in for the deposit refund. They'd stop doing it on the streets (for the most part), for the same reason you don't see raging alcoholics crowding the alleys drinking moonshine.
Drug criminalization/prohibition creates all of the problems that most people associate with drug use/addiction.