[ironchief]

Former Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the safe injection site bill saying "enabling illegal and destructive drug use will never work."

Doesn't look like "the Republican Party at the national level" to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-hea...

[radicalbyte]

Politicians basically caused the problem by allowing Purdue etc to get a massive amount of people addicted to opiates. They should be solving the problem now not making it worse.

[Shivetya]

I do tend to remember that this explosive growth in addictions issues took off well before the current batch of drug warriors took office.

the previous administration could have changed the course of both the drug war and the opioid problem if they had acted but they also bow down to the real power behind the drug war which is the police and sheriff unions, those who enforce and those who run the prison systems.

you want to change the drug war you have to get the public employee unions out of politics one hundred percent. they perpetuate the drug war and resulting prison state far more than any corporation. they own politicians and have no issue exerting pressure to keep their power