• @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    -156 months ago

    Good. if people want to do drugs, that is their choice, but we are getting sick of it happening next to our door way where the heavy stink of weed is choking us out. Or you go to a kids park and aome asshat is puffing away making it so kids are forced to breath it in. Is it too much to ask recreational users to have common decency and show respect for others space?

      • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        -106 months ago

        when the gov’t decriminalized possession, and allowed smoking in parks, every doucjbag took that as I will smoke it in your kids face because cops had no power to move that person along.

    • Beaver [she/her]
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      106 months ago

      These people are struggling and our comfort should come second as many drug users end up dying alone because it is stigmatized.

      • @psvrh@lemmy.ca
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        96 months ago

        The problem is that you can want that all you like, but you won’t get it because people are, frankly, people, and all that statement does is anger people who don’t have the experience and/or empathy that you do.

        You need to convince people why they need to support safe-consumption sites and increased healthcare, and you need to do it by explaining why it benefits them, not the people struggling because, and again, this is hard to hear they don’t care about addicts, but they do care about, eg, not having their stuff stolen.

        A lot of advocates really struggle with this, and I’ve personally seen support for a safe-use site torpedoed by an advocate who was offended by people saying “It’s good to see an safe-consumption site, it’ll really help” and telling them “It’s for them, it’s not about you!”

      • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        -76 months ago

        It ia not just homeless though, I’m talking about a person with a nice house and vehicle, deciding their drug habit can come out to a public place and should be everyone elses problem.

    • @BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      76 months ago

      The solution to this is to make sure EVERYONE is housed.

      Not to ban people from doing something that they’re 100% going to do because they’re so far gone they don’t care about the consequences anyways.

      This re-criminalization allows cops to move them along, but it won’t jail them. Nobody is going to get incarcerated for smoking pot next to your house.