Harm Reduction, Human Rights

The street supply is unpredictable due to prohibition and the War on Drugs. With pain patients and others forced off of their controlled substance medications or unable to ever obtain a prescription, more and more people are utilizing the street supply. Meanwhile, the DEA runs campaigns like to say the only safe substance is from a prescription by a doctor.

We know “drug busts” and arrests lead to more deaths from overdose by distributing the supply, causing PWUD to find a new supply, on top of racist enforcement.

The Iron Law of Prohibition has been proven over and over again that “increasing law enforcement” leads to “increasing cost of illegality” creating the “need to avoid detection (less weight and volume, easier to hide, store, and transport)” leading to “increasing potency of substance”.

The same harmful, deadly legislative approaches lead to the same outcome. More people dying due to the War on Drugs. We need safe supply, NOT criminalization.

Please read Drug Policy Alliance’s “Rethinking and Reducing Punishment for People in the Drug Trade (Deep Dive)”:
https://drugpolicy.org/more-about-legal-regulation/