Well....the story goes this way....the Linke Party (probably having about 5-percent of German public support presently....is making a draft bill up to allow addicts free access to limited amounts of meth, cocaine, heroin and ecstasy. The deal would involve some type of medical supervision.
TRT is the one reporting this.
How I would view this?
There are three elements to it:
1. Presently, I'd say more than 60-percent of German society support regulated sales of cannabis. The coalition government (SPD, Greens and FDP) say they will have a bill with regulations ready by the end of 2022....with open stores probably in the middle of 2023. I should emphasize here....we are only talking about weed/marijuana.
If you spoke to anything beyond that.....more than 90-percent of the public (my humble opinion) would say 'NO'.
2. The minute you say 'free'....a vast number of Germans would be turned off by the idea. The dopers? They'd love the idea of free drugs.
3. Of the top forty urbanized area of Germany.....drugs are a significant issue, and becoming a nuisance to the general public. I can cite the downtown area of Frankfurt, and an entire city park in Berlin which have been taken over.
Why the Linke Party went to this extreme? On the popularity scale....for the past decade....they've been losing support around the country.....so trying to find some special topic might be an attempt to find public support.
That's the whole discussion. This bill will go nowhere, and be generally laughed upon by most people.
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Yes, but free in a medically supervised setting means it's happening less on the streets, organised crime loses it's market share and generally it creates a path to rehabilitation wherever it's been trialled.
So overall a net positive for the citizens. People who shriek that its making drugs available everywhere need to wake up to the reality that it's already available everywhere, from criminals who don't care about any of us, or this effort to try and maintain a civil and productive society
If you go the average German....they all support rehab programs and clinics to get people off the drugs. Politically trying to sell this across the country might occur if you just said you'd have to live in some fenced-in closed-off rural setting to get the deal.
Around Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt...whole neighborhoods taken up now by junkies who just lay on the street, and public frustration with city councils is settling in. Most of the public has given up on these folks ever being productive....so 'herding' them into a compound for a early 'junkie-death' might be something worth selling.
Adding to this drama.....some Germans are gazing at SF, LA, Seattle, and think within ten years...they will be comparable to some of these homeless-junkie regions of the US.
The difference being the prevailing health care models of the US vs Germany. As much as the wealthy try and eradicate the rest of us there's thankfully still a social safety net. Not a particularly good one anymore, as the elites do their best to reintroduce serfdom.
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