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> In Seattle, for instance, the policy is to distribute drugs and needles to users

Please cite your sources if you are going to make ridiculous claims. The city of Seattle does not have a municipal policy to distribute drugs to drug users at the syringe exchanges.

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The charitable interpretation is methadone but that's neither new nor unique to Seattle.

If they did, it would be illegal federally and all involved would be jailed.

Curious. I must be misremembering.

I mean, the executive branch can pick and choose who it prosecutes. If they are in favor of the program, they can simply not prosecute.

Do you mean judicial branch?

The attorney general (and the DOJ) is part of the executive branch

oh, i should have noticed that too; thank you.

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