Jan 17, 2021 01:49 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 17, 2021 02:09 AM by C C.)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....20.1861364
ABSTRACT: Historically, laws and policies to criminalize drug use or possession were rooted in explicit racism, and they continue to wreak havoc on certain racialized communities. We are a group of bioethicists, drug experts, legal scholars, criminal justice researchers, sociologists, psychologists, and other allied professionals who have come together in support of a policy proposal that is evidence-based and ethically recommended. We call for the immediate decriminalization of all so-called recreational drugs and, ultimately, for their timely and appropriate legal regulation. We also call for criminal convictions for nonviolent offenses pertaining to the use or possession of small quantities of such drugs to be expunged, and for those currently serving time for these offenses to be released. In effect, we call for an end to the “war on drugs.” (MORE)
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Cynical Sindee: Heh. Just in case you thought that integrating social justice with climate change would be as non sequitur as future "Green Deal" packages could get in terms of agenda content... Now realize this political industry is like a dissonant musical art form... the extensions are endless, or rather what you can subsume under the holy crusades of the social justice facade is unbounded.
Here you also have a marvelous ideological snapshot of the whole gang together: scientists, legal experts, philosophers, other scholars. Infected with motivated reasoning from bottom to top.
ABSTRACT: Historically, laws and policies to criminalize drug use or possession were rooted in explicit racism, and they continue to wreak havoc on certain racialized communities. We are a group of bioethicists, drug experts, legal scholars, criminal justice researchers, sociologists, psychologists, and other allied professionals who have come together in support of a policy proposal that is evidence-based and ethically recommended. We call for the immediate decriminalization of all so-called recreational drugs and, ultimately, for their timely and appropriate legal regulation. We also call for criminal convictions for nonviolent offenses pertaining to the use or possession of small quantities of such drugs to be expunged, and for those currently serving time for these offenses to be released. In effect, we call for an end to the “war on drugs.” (MORE)
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Cynical Sindee: Heh. Just in case you thought that integrating social justice with climate change would be as non sequitur as future "Green Deal" packages could get in terms of agenda content... Now realize this political industry is like a dissonant musical art form... the extensions are endless, or rather what you can subsume under the holy crusades of the social justice facade is unbounded.
Here you also have a marvelous ideological snapshot of the whole gang together: scientists, legal experts, philosophers, other scholars. Infected with motivated reasoning from bottom to top.