Thread by @MyHarmReduction

Some Drug War Facts:

✅Illicit drug use occurs in every zip code but drug arrests don't.
✅A drug arrest record (even without a conviction or incarceration) can mess up your life.
✅The drug war has made social workers, doctors, teachers, etc. into frontline enforcers like cops.

✅Drug use disorders are the only health condition where being actively 'symptomatic' makes you a 'criminal' too.
✅The drug war and criminalization makes recovery harder to achieve.
✅The drug war incentivizes unsafe drug use and behaviors to avoid law enforcement detection.

✅You're still a drug warrior if you only want to free your drug of choice (looking at you, plant activists)
✅You're still a drug warrior if you see drug users as 'victims' who need saving
✅You're still a drug warrior if you only want decrim, but not a safe supply

✅You're still a drug warrior if you think people need the 'stick' of drug courts and mandates for treatment
✅You're still a drug warrior if you blame people for "not following the rules" because they used drugs
✅You're still a drug warrior if you think punishment works.

✅You're still a drug warrior if you think all drug use is self-medicating without acknowledging pleasure
✅You're still a drug warrior if you think jail is the "safest" place for someone at risk of using
✅You're still a drug warrior if you want to ban vapes & flavors

✅You're still a drug warrior if you want to ban menthols
✅You're still a drug warrior if you affirm the false dichotomy of user/seller
✅You're still a drug warrior if you don't support Safer Consumption Spaces

✅You're still a drug warrior if you think buprenorphine and methadone shouldn't be treated like other meds
✅You're still a drug warrior if you think you can make the drug war "kinder" or "gentler"
✅You're still a drug warrior if you support the drug testing industrial complex

✅You're still a drug warrior if you believe in class-wide scheduling of drugs (see: fent analogs)
✅You're still a drug warrior if you support aerial crop fumigation
✅You're still a drug warrior if you tell people to 'say no to drugs' then ::crickets:: if they do use drugs.

✅You're still a drug warrior if you support opioid prescribing caps that hurt pain patients and other undertreated groups
✅You're still a drug warrior if you support drug-induced homicide charges that target friends, loved ones, and disproportionately people of color