The Colorado bill authorizing government sanctioned meth houses and opium dens is headed to the full state House for a vote after Democrats passed the bill out of committee Wednesday.
The bill lets state lawmakers off the hook politically by ceding authority to establish drug centers to individual cities like Denver, which has already legalized staffed shooting galleries pending state legislative action.
Supporters are confident it will end the tragedy of drug overdoses, which have increased dramatically since President Biden was elected and threw our borders wide open to deadly Fentanyl drug smugglers.
Instead of doing drugs at parties, we are to assume that young adults will load up the car and seek out injection centers, and then get behind the wheel to return to the scene of their parties.
We are to believe that students buying pills at school will save it until they can get to injection centers in dangerous neighborhoods in case that Percocet turns out to be Fentanyl.
Young adults experimenting with drugs for the first time under peer pressure will have the wherewithal to convince their friends to move the party across snow-covered roads hours away to an injection center.
Doubtful and unrealistic.
Drug injection centers are a means of legalizing illegal drugs for hardcore addicts and enabling their deadly habits.
From Colorado Politics:
Legislators critical of the approach said they would decrease property values for surrounding businesses, increase crime and raise public safety for nearby schools.
“It is my life experience that drug abuse, misuse and addiction is not wellness. It is a sickness,” Republican Rep. Richard Holtorf said. “Embracing the drug culture is a sickness to society. … So, I can’t equate drug abuse and addiction to wellness. There’s no way. I’m not going to cross that bridge.”
Supporters claim science proves overdose centers prevent overdosing when drugs are used there, because duh.
What science doesn’t show, is that injection centers are successful at eliminating their customer base by getting addicts off drugs and truly saving their lives from the ravages of drug use and overdose.
One thing the great American experience has taught us, is that when government starts a new program with the intention of solving a problem, the problem is never solved.
Instead, taxpayers are stuck with subsidizing a program and the bureaucrats who operate it in perpetuity, thereby enabling, rather than solving the problem.