Pennsylvania Democrat Senate Candidate John Fetterman Wants to “Legalize Heroin” and Fund “Safe Injection Sites”

I've heard his health issues are interfering in his ability to campaign in person, and he's been doing a lot of ZOOM rallies and meetings instead. Pennsylvania Democrats should probably look at OTHER Democrat candidates because if they elect this guy, there will be a special election really soon.

Am I surprised that he has stupid and horrific ideas? Nope. He is an extremist.

Imagine being stupid enough to vote for him

What could go wrong? Just look at Seattle. While technically still illegal, IV drug use has essentially been decriminalized. Users have "safe injection sites" where they can get clean needles, the police won't arrest, and there are health care personnel to administer narcan for overdoeses.
Net effect:
IV drug users flock to Seattle. Many are living on the streets. What used to be nice areas of downtown Seattle are now full of urine, feces, used needles, trash, garbage, etc. Drug use requires money and most of these people don't work. Burglarly, robbery, theft have all spiked. Seattle now considers these to be "survival crimes." The offender may be arrested, but won't be prosecuted, and will be back out on the streets shortly. Drug users attract drug dealers. Drug dealing leads to gangs. Gangs lead to narco-terrorists. Law enforcement is leaving Seattle, and the efforts to defund the police isn't helping. It didn't take long for this city to turn into a shithole. In the news, you hear how the Seattle city council is addressing "the homeless problem" - a problem their policies created - by trying to increase funding for healthcare, shelters for the homeless, gov't affordable housing. Everything they do exacerbates the issue, and it's by design.

To his point, the families of people addicted to drugs are unable or unwilling to seek treatment help for their loved ones because of the likelihood that they'll end up in jail.

The opioid epidemic is ravaging states like his, and the only solution being offered up by Republicans is to lock them up, which only makes rehabilitation less achievable. Tens of thousands of Americans are dying each year from drug overdoses, and those rates are continually rising, so something radical needs to be done.

Portugal is a shining example of what can happen when you decriminalize drugs. In 2001, they decided to legalize drug consumption and adopt safe injection sites in their country. In the 2 decades since, its rate of HIV infection dropped from 104 new cases per million to 4 cases per million. Its drug overdose death rate plummeted to less than 20% of the EU average. Drug usage rates for 15-24 year olds declined the entire time.

In the US, if people are caught with drugs, they are sent to prison instead of rehab. By decriminalizing drugs, you make it so that they can get sent to get the help they need instead of being sent to a concrete cell to become hardened by prison life.

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Herion isnt even a north American product. How could there be so much of it here, for this dofus to even think thats acceptable?

Democrats open boarders, prehaps 🤔, proof the democrats are the biggest threat to democracy.

I think UnderLockDown deserves best comment here, because he is correctly pointing out that enabling injectable drug use, as many states are doing, also enables homelessness, theft, violence and murder as the drug addicts prey on the sane populace to get money for their drugs. This promulgates disease among long term homeless users, and it certainly doesn't make any of them happy in any way. In fact, it enables or promotes long term misery among the drug users.

As a Pennsylvanian, I can tell you that the heroin part is not true. He wants to legalize marijuana, which I'm surprised the current governor hasn't done already.

He does want to release 1/3 of the prison population though. I think he should go live in the heart of Philly and see if he changes his mind.

The sad part is he is currently winning in the polls, even after a bad stroke that has affected his health. He's running against Dr. Oz who just doesn't seem to be getting the support he needs.

I hate politics in PA.

If he wins, he will fit right in with the democrat clown show. The guys in his 40's and still gets an allowance from his parents. What a loser.

I think we should decriminalize all of it. Those who are going to abuse will do so but decriminalizing it would take the money and the crime out of it. The reduction in crime and gang violence would make for any other issues.

The perfect policy:

1) Defund the police.

2) Release 1/3 of the prison population.

No agenda there. ;)

If its legal does the police still have to save the lives of those overdosing?

But... can we also talk about his wardrobe choices? he always wears a black hoodie and basketball shorts. Ummmm.... I don't think that will fly on Capitol Hill.

I've always thought he looked like an ex-con, personally.

Didn’t Obama do that ? Promote illegal activity?

..and the trumpers will still not understand that they are to blame for having another incompetent democrat elected because of the opponent they put against him.
get used to it because it will continue as long as his shadow covers the party.

He doesn't look crazy at all!

Maybe legalizing is not that good but it should be decriminalized and what's wrong with safe injection sites?

surprised the democrats haven't burned him at the stake over his jogger "incident"...

crazy Gringo

Once you know they are lawless, and support criminals freedom rather than law abiding citizens safety, you know they are paid off by Soros et al. They are corrupt.

Legalize it, tax it! The war on drugs is a failure..

Yes because this is a much, much better look. 🙄

What an idiot. Somebody needs to wake up

Where will the “ funding” come from?