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Author	rossdrew
Comment	Ok, I'll explain it a third time for you. Try and keep up this time. It's ok to take what other countries are doing and learn from it. THAT is what countries do all the time. It's not ok to take a *single* *policy* that another country implemented as part of a swathe of policies making up a very complex program and implement it. Ignoring said program, the differences in economy, culture and politics. Then call it by the name of program and not the policy. Portugal implemented shooting dens as part of of a much wider program of social healthifying drug use including decriminalising and geographical planning. Leading to a much more open society as a whole, across the entire geography towards drugs supported by safe use programs. The SNP want to implement shooting dens and CALL it alone public healthifying drug use. No wider program, no study feasibility. They want to do it in in one place, Glasgow. Decriminalising isn't even properly on the bill and if it ever is it will be a long time away. So what you get in that scenario is ensuring that most addicts move to Glasgow and do something the entirely of Scotland and it's laws consider a criminal activity under the watchful eye of the law, who can do nothing about it. Then you have multiples of the number of drug addicts in Glasgow and the only thing different is that they're not dying as often. I have news for you, drug addicts don't stop being addicts because we sit them next to a councillor while they inject heroin. Ah free prescriptions. You can't understand the argument I'm making so you create a straw man to argue with. Bet you understand that argument just as badly.
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Created	Tue 3rd May 2022 1:44pm
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Ok, I'll explain it a third time for you. Try and keep up this time.

It's ok to take what other countries are doing and learn from it. THAT is what countries do all the time. It's not ok to take a ***single*** ***policy*** that another country implemented as part of a swathe of policies making up a very complex program and implement it. Ignoring said program, the differences in economy, culture and politics. Then call it by the name of program and not the policy.

Portugal implemented shooting dens as part of of a much wider program of social healthifying drug use including decriminalising and geographical planning. Leading to a much more open society as a whole, across the entire geography towards drugs supported by safe use programs.
The SNP want to implement shooting dens and CALL it alone public healthifying drug use. No wider program, no study feasibility. They want to do it in in one place, Glasgow. Decriminalising isn't even properly on the bill and if it ever is it will be a long time away.
So what you get in that scenario is ensuring that most addicts move to Glasgow and do something the entirely of Scotland and it's laws consider a criminal activity under the watchful eye of the law, who can do nothing about it. Then you have multiples of the number of drug addicts in Glasgow and the only thing different is that they're not dying as often.
I have news for you, drug addicts don't stop being addicts because we sit them next to a councillor while they inject heroin.

Ah free prescriptions. You can't understand the argument I'm making so you create a straw man to argue with. Bet you understand that argument just as badly.