@enobacon It's certainly a step forward not criminalizing people for substance abuse, however that's not going to solve the problem alone. It's really disappointing to see this done without psychological treatment, rehabilitation, job training, job placement, affordable housing, etc. People that are addicted need services not just not being arrested.
@ryanvgates the bike helmets thing just really sums-up our victim-blaming response to people being victimized by capitalism. (What's the housing equivalent of free bike helmets? Maybe the kind of smoke detectors that are almost useless even if you had a house, and our smoke detector encouragement policy discouraged people from using housing...) Simply legalizing bikes and market-rate housing would solve like 90% of the problems, it's just so hard to fit that idea into their world-view though.
@ryanvgates (...continuing the smoke detector analogy, there would have to be some other mode of living in a hotel maybe that was heavily subsidized and yet more expensive, where you were treated as a lower class and would often get run out of bed with hotels, if you simply lived in an apartment, while the hoteliers criticized your smoke detector...)
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