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Stress-induced drug use during
pandemic is reason to de-criminalize
harder drugs: Foxx

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Posted By: AltaD, 4/23/2021 2:32:54 PM

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday pointed to stress-induced drug abuse during the pandemic as the impetus to get moving on her plan to wipe clean the record of convicted marijuana dealers and expunge offenses for heroin and cocaine possession. “Especially in this last year with COVID — overdose deaths were at a high. Those people weren’t criminals. They were people who were suffering. Whether that was cocaine or heroin or Fentanyl or prescription drugs, I’m not making value judgements on which person used what type of drug to say that’s a disorder,” Foxx told the Sun-Times.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 4/23/2021 2:42:18 PM (No. 764871)
"Those people weren’t criminals" Yes. They were.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Luandir 4/23/2021 2:54:47 PM (No. 764888)
She hasn't gotten any smarter since Jussie Smollett, has she? How about ending the lockdowns instead?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Skinnydip 4/23/2021 3:02:57 PM (No. 764896)
Can this country get any crazier? I’m afraid I know the answer to that question.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 4/23/2021 3:12:01 PM (No. 764904)
So Kim Foxx is going to set up "Opium Dens" on the Magnificent Mile. So patrons can get a Magnificent Mile High. How progressive of her. And taxpayers will foot the bill for the crime induced by the MMH.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: LanceLink1 4/23/2021 3:22:34 PM (No. 764914)
The logic in the tag line of the article eludes me.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: CactusStar 4/23/2021 3:30:42 PM (No. 764923)
Kim, perhaps you should start using your brain and make some value judgements.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: NeverForget 4/23/2021 3:38:12 PM (No. 764929)
Increased abuse of hard drugs: Another result -- not of Covid-19 which is a respiratory disease -- but of the MASSIVE OVERREACTION to Covid-19. The "cure" has been immeasurably worse than the problem.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 4/23/2021 4:11:24 PM (No. 764947)
Junkies want their junk.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 4/23/2021 4:27:31 PM (No. 764969)
No! No! Don't decriminalize! The "war on drugs" is only fifty years old. Give it a chance! It's just starting to work!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: smokincol 4/23/2021 4:50:31 PM (No. 764985)
now that makes a whole barnyard full of animal disposed matter full of sense. I wish I'd thought of that and if I had maybe I could be the "Cook County State’s Attorney". oh, drat, I'm not black so that eliminates me right from the get-go. do these people really think we are that stupid?!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: rochow 4/23/2021 6:18:25 PM (No. 765062)
But of course this dumb Foxx comes up with this kind of garbage. AND there is no crime happening around the George Floyd plaza or whatever it's called. It's racist just to imply that blacks are ripping off black shop owners. Must be Amish travelers who are doing that. Hey, Foxxy has spoken and she is dumber a brick!
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