#1-NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE
US CONGRESS WILL ALLOW 100,000 SOULS TO DIE THIS YEAR.
In a clinical environment, health care and social service providers can:
- Assess their patients’ living conditions.
- Determine exactly what type of drugs each patient needs and how much each patient can safely consume.
- Inform their patients’ of the dangers certain substances pose to their life.
- Suggest other alternatives as necessary.
- Identify the psychosocial mentality of the patients and the underline reason they desire to take dangerous drugs.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN REPORTED OF A SINGLE OVERDOSE DEATH IN A SUPERVISED INJECTION SITE.
#2 - CHILD ENDANGERMENT
8,986 CHILDREN HAVE OVERDOSED BETWEEN 1999 AND 2016.
- Congress inaction on terminating policy that criminalize drug use forces chemically dependent patients to purchase from drug dealers
- Prohibition enables drug dealers to sell drugs to American children and young adults via motivated profit and addiction.
- If the demand for dangerous drugs were met in a clinic, drug dealers would not be able to sell drugs to children on the streets.
- Free clinical distribution would prevent exposure to the lifestyle idealized by drug dealers.
BECAUSE HEROIN IS DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE IN THE NETHERLANDS, THERE ARE ZERO OVERDOSES IN THE UNDER 40 AGE POPULATION.
#3 - SOURCE SPREAD OF MASS INCARCERATION
40% OF CRIME IN THE US IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SALE OF PROHIBITED DRUGS.
- The conflict between law enforcement and the African American community started with the criminalization of drugs.
- Diverting funds from law enforcement to education- job training and housing would up lift the underserve VS. punishing human beings for a health care matter.
- Free clinical distribution would help repair the divide between law enforcement and people of color.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF MASS INCARCERATION IN THE US.
#4 - ACCESSORY TO ILLEGAL GUN TRAFFICKING
THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF STREET NARCOTICS IS LESS THAN 3 CENTS A DOSE.
- One-gram of cocaine costs up to $200.00.
- Profits from drugs sales fuel the illegal gun trade.
- Drug dealers use firearms to protect their cash and drugs.
- Free clinical distribution would lower demand for guns on the street.
WE ARE SAFER WITH LESS ILLEGAL GUNS IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
#5 - AIDING AND ABETTING TERRORISM
FREE CLINICAL DISTRIBUTION = NO FUNDING FOR TERRORISTS.
- The Taliban is one of many terrorist organizations producing and selling heroin to US citizens.
- Terrorist organizations around the world are profiting from criminalized drugs sold on the streets of the US and other countries.
- These terrorists use these funds to destabilize the US and other civilian populations around the globe.
PROFITS FROM THE ILLEGAL SALE OF HEROIN AND OTHER DRUGS FUNDED THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS.
#6 - DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE TO HOMELESSNESS
THE US HAS SPENT OVER $1,000,000,000 FIGHTING THE WAR ON DRUGS.
- The percentage of Americans using illicit drugs has not changed since the 1920's when prohibition began.
- 98% of those chronically homeless suffer from a chemical dependency, mental health disorder, or combination of the two.
- Free clinical distribution will allow physicians to see these patients, know their condition, observe their response to narcotic consumption, and treat them accordingly.
HOMELESSNESS WOULD NOT EXIST IF MONEY ALLOCATED TO CRIMINALIZING DRUGS WAS INSTEAD DIVERTEDTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
#7 - CAUSATION OF IMMINENT THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
THE US - MEXICO BORDER IS OVERWHELMED BY THE SMUGGLING OF DRUGS, REFUGES, AND CRIMINALS.
- According to Congress, some people crossing the border in 2021 have been proven to be on the US terrorism watch list.
- If the demand for dangerous drugs was met in a clinical environment, drug cartels and gangs would not profit.
- The US - Mexico border Crisis could be resolved if governments focused on serving marginalized populations in their own country instead of fighting the war on drugs.
DRUG SMUGGLING WOULD NOT EXIST IF DEALERS HAD NO CUSTOMERS TO SELL TO.
#8 - CAUSATION OF PAIN AND SUFFERING
US CONGRESS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PAIN & SUFFERING OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
- US Congress continues to support the The US Controlled Substance Act (CSA) and other codes of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act.
- These Acts prohibits physicians from prescribing opiates to ambulatory patients.
- Drug criminalization allows the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to interfere with the doctor patient relationship, thus interfering with the medical standard of care.
- Licensed providers are the proper authorities to observe responses to various medication regardless of its status or classification.