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Are you in favor of decriminalizing drug use?

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Response rates from 559k Canada voters.

51%
Yes
49%
No
40%
Yes
37%
No
8%
Yes, for most but not all drugs
6%
No, but decriminalize drugs that offer medicinal benefits such as marijuana
3%
Yes, and retroactively reduce sentences for those already serving time
4%
No, but increase funding for addiction prevention and rehabilitation
1%
No, and increase punishment for drug dealers
1%
No, we should pass tougher drug laws

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 @9RBN6JDfrom Newfoundland  answered…7mos7MO

No, but decriminalized drugs that offer medicinal benefits such as marijuana and increase punishment for drug dealers

 @9ZTRL63from British Columbia  answered…3mos3MO

Yes, but also increase funding for drug education and require mandatory rehab for cases of severe drug addiction

 @9DCWDPPfrom Seoul-t'ukpyolsi  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but also actively discourage drug use and implement policies to help addicts recover

 @9D64G5Cfrom Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, drug use should be treated as a medical/social issue and not a criminal issue

 @9D4GF2Cfrom Ontario  answered…2yrs2Y

We should provide funding for more help. More resources to provide SAFE drug use

 @9TR533Janswered…6mos6MO

Drug use shouldn’t be criminalised, but being under the influence in public should be illegal, and crimes committed under drug influence should be more severely punished

 @9TN8BFWfrom British Columbia  answered…6mos6MO

No but we should pay mroe attention on people who suffer with drug addiction, it will have a positive impact on the economy

 @9RF48S4from Massachusetts  answered…7mos7MO

Drugs are good and a good business and the persecution of their usage and sale has been primarily a racist and oppressive one

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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