I used to believe in legalising drugs.
For most of my adult life I believed that legalising drugs was the way to control it. At least, I thought, decriminalising drugs was the way. If not legalising then hands off.
Then I saw what happens when you follow this policy. How it ruined cities, how it ruined lives. Places like San Francisco, LA, Oakland, Seattle. Cities run on “progressive” principles like easy on drugs. They are ruined for everyone, not least the druggies and mentally afflicted themselves.
Jonathan Choe has been following the issue for years. Brandi Kruse talks to him on a tour of “progressive” Seattle.
Many of the “homeless” have homes. Have places to stay. But they prefer the street.
It’s not a lack of shelter crisis. “It’s a drugs and mental health crisis”.
It’s an addict and mental health problem. That’s only being worsened by “progressive” policies. Policies that I once supported. Which new mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, still supports. Because it’s “progressive”. Because it’s “empathetic”.
I changed my mind in the legalising drugs issue. Because of facts. Because of experience.
Allowing drug addicts to live on the streets, to shoot up on the sidewalks. To live and die in tents. That’s not compassion.
Have you ever changed your mind over an issue of substance? Over something really important? That you held close to your heart? That you felt defined you, as a compassionate human?
