I am an oncology patient of 9 years. No opiates pain meds or those fentanyl Blues I see lying on the ground in parking lots left there by people so high or so Dad they can pass them along to more people and caused more deaths in US history this past year. Spread life not lies.

Rickett, you're fired!!!

Well done Max! It's been a moment of hope then Twisted messaging from very pale people who are convinced Fox News is America at its best and most true. So tired of this. We need Federal reform. Especially since the seat of our federal government in DC has legal cannabis SMH 😂

Well, the US has a (IMHO) very strange approach to "active" substances. Sometimes, it looks to me as if the government has their ties in the industry (by making something illegal, the black market blooms…). The current approach is very one-dimensional and simplistic. 1/n

OK, I may be a bit biased, but I occasionally had to cross the infamous "needle park" in Zürich to go to work. And the measures the city government took (often against federal law) did really work. (and, repression just became a small part of the strategy). 2/2

I don't know much about that can you fill me in a little bit I'm curious I do like to know what's going on Beyond this nation which is made really strong advances these past few years despite the likes of Mitch McConnell and Governor Ricketts children and death reference. Creepy!

Not sure if I can help much, but the main drug in Zürich at the time was heroin, and the follow issues with needle sharing and petty crime. Among the measures taken: • Police tolerating (just look away) small amount of drugs for the daily use (but going after dealers 1/n

• Making a space where drugs could be applied in a clean environment with free and fresh needles • At the same place have health staff and social workers • Legalising of and treatment programs with Methadone • Legal providing of heroin in serious cases where… 2/n

… Methadone does not work. • Programs to reduce/eliminate procurement crimes (job programs, housing help etc.) • Accepting addiction as a (social) health issue, and provide according help The whole strategy did work, and there are still addicts, but no open scene. 3/3