Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, that ends mandatory minimum jail sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
Wiener said Senate Bill 73 will help end mass incarceration and what he called the state’s war on drugs.
“Our prisons and jails are filled with people — particularly from communities of color — who have committed low-level, nonviolent drug offenses and who would be much better served by non-carceral options like probation, rehabilitation and treatment,” he said.
The legislation goes into effect Jan. 1.
The law will allow courts to grant probation or suspend sentences — a practice currently prohibited by state law — for people convicted of non-violent drug offenses and would impose state-mandated programs, according to an analysis by the state’s legislative’s counsel.
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That’s great!
Why not just stop arresting and prosecuting people for anything and just let everyone do what they want?
That’s obviously the end goal.
Let chaos rule.
We’re almost there now.
So, this illegal alien truck driver from El Salvador who was just sentenced to 3 1/2 years for transporting 15 kilos of fentanyl across the country — had he not broken federal law, he would be set free under Wiener’s bill?
On the bright side, he faces deportation when he is released. He will no doubt cross the border again illegally.
California trucker gets 3 1/2-year prison sentence for cross-country fentanyl shipment (ktla.com)
https://bit.ly/2WLMqYr
The reason why fentanyl is a problem to begin with is because of drug prohibition.
We’ve known this for over 100 years after alcohol was briefly made illegal – if people want to consume a substance they will find a way (bathtub gin is an example). The war on drugs is a complete failure and hasn’t curbed any drug use whatsoever – the problem has only gotten worse over the course of almost 50 years. All it has done is imprisoned millions and created incentives to manufacture drugs like fentanyl for use as an adulterant with other drugs for increased profits at the expense of safety. This leads to thousands of overdoses per year in the US alone. Commercial production will crush international drug smuggling overnight.
Legalize all drugs and produce them on a commercial scale. We’re all adults here and should be allowed to do dangerous things in a truly free country.
Drug laws here make absolutely no sense – alcohol, for example, is considerably more dangerous than cocaine when considering both short, long term effects and deaths. 95,000 alcohol related deaths occured in the US last year which is more than all illegal drugs combined. And yet, alcohol use is extremely common and encouraged in many social environments.
If he’d been a white, male citizen he’d get 50 years.
@Jim
It’s a nice little theory liberally seasoned with bull$hit and wishful thinking. Reality doesn’t work this way.
Alcohol prohibition worked exactly as intended, i. e. it significantly reduced per capita alcohol consumption. To about 30% of pre-prohibition levels in the first years, to about 70% of pre-prohibition level in the last year. Per-capita alcohol consumption didn’t return to pre-prohibition levels until early 70s. Alcohol-related mortality closely followed alcohol consumption trends.
It’s not true that alcohol is considerably more dangerous than cocaine. It’s not true that alcohol-related deaths exceed those of all illegal drugs combined. Alcohol-related deaths include deaths from all causes related to alcohol consumption including alcohol-impaired driving and other accidents, liver cirrhosis, etc. The only deaths attributed to illegal drugs are straight overdoses; other drug-related deaths aren’t even counted. It’s the usual trick of comparing apples to oranges, which should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.
It’s not true that “commercial production will crush international drug smuggling overnight”. As we’ve seen with marijuana, it’s not what happened at all. In reality drug cartels started growing it illegally in CA – and are still successfully competing with legitimate providers.
The only correct thing you’ve said is that our current drug-related policies are stupid. Which doesn’t mean that making all drugs legal will magically improve things because “we’re all adults here”. European countries that managed to stem their drug epidemics (like Portugal) had a balanced policies centering at various harm reduction strategies. Those that didn’t have such policies failed. As will this newest Weiner’s brainchild.
To ANON . Yeah right if he were white he’d get probation or not pulled over at all in the first place 😂
@tasaj
You are wrong.
“Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis” published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2010 found that alcohol was 3x more harmful than cocaine.
They also found that alcohol was by far the most harmful drug studied (against 20 other drugs including crack, meth, and heroin) when considering all consequences combined.
Care to talk about how much organized crime alcohol prohibition created?
Marijuana is one of the only plant based drugs that can be grown in the United States. That’s why you will never see illegal poppy or coca farms anywhere here.
Legalizing drugs will absolutely crush international smuggling while also increasing the safety profiles of recreational drugs. Divert all the money from drug incarceration to safe drug use and rehabilitation.
Cellophane +1
Then the liberals will wonder why crime is increasing.
+1 …the more they pass bills like this the more they show they’re only trying to keep their place in office
non-carceral options like probation, rehabilitation and treatment,” he said.
The law will allow (courts)
>>>to grant probation or suspend sentences<<>prohibited<>>”according to an analysis”<<<
by the state’s legislative’s counsel.
so in their dem political opinion ….the state’s legislative’s counsel
says the law now signed …..
would maybe have these criminals put in state mandated programs
maybe
they will mandate or confer or deny or circle back or be undeceive or flip flop or suggest or highly suggest or form a panel or discuss or blame trump or goudy or cruz or
not do anything
for these crimes ….that were against the law in the state
that the people voted for
are now deemed not needed by a wiener
who by the way also wants laws
to allow pedophile's within 10 years of your childs age to abuse them
wow you elected a winner there
maybe dem voters should be banned from voting since they prefer abuse and corruption and lying politicians
over a lawful society
blissful
safe society for our children
.
St. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-SF) is a detriment and menace to public safety.
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These crazy liberal progressives have ruined their own communities- San Francisco in wieners case- then they want to impose ‘the joy’ on to the rest of the state and country.
(Like Newsom, Harris et al).
Ever wondered why so many residences in large DEM run cities have bars on windows and doors, . . . .
What happened to ‘do the crime, do the time’?
Not sure why some folks (Bob) think this is great? Why do we even have laws on the books that we are not going to enforce? In today’s screwed up state of California, I can be convicted of a crime and do no time, while suing the cops because the offended me. I no longer need to stop at a stop sign in Berkeley in a car, or in our county on a bike, … just need to slow down. The jails are too full, so let the creeps out ..
Chaos rules this state … the one positive, Newscum actually signed a Bill and not just another mandate.
You’re blowing it way out of proportion. It doesn’t even decriminalize drugs, it just frees up the judges when it comes to sentencing.
Personally, I say that if there’s no victim, then there’s no crime; but that’s beyond the scope of this topic.
Putting people in cages for non-violent drug charges is obscene.
If they just had users in jail they could pick up the homeless populations all over the place. There are only dealers in jail. So great let the dealers back out. We are governed by idiots.
It’s about time he did something right.
When laws become suggestions they lose their power of persuasion. And eventually a tipping-point is reached and you have anarchy. And anarchy is almost always followed by authoritarian rule, which might very well be the goal of George Soros and the Democrat Party.
One more nail in the coffin of a once great state brought to you by the socialist left.
The criminals are treated better than the tax payers of this state—end our non-violent offenses of not being vaccinated! I guess Senator Wiener and Governor Newsom must be compadres with the cartels in Mexico…you need fentanyl drug dealers out on the streets while they all make dinero!
The prison for profit industry, prosecutors, police union got wiener by the balls! now police don’t have to bust non violence drug offenses which is good for them because decreases theirs chance of being shot; no arrests = no prosecutions; no prosecutions=no crowed prison, which is unconstitutional according the the Supreme Court.
We have the biggest bunch of idiots in office in this state, and everyone keeps voting them in just based on the bases of them being Democrat. Wake up people they have destroyed this state. They do this crap to balance a budget that they can’t stay within and putting the cost to us in higher taxs and as this goes on higher insurance as we have to cover the damage they do to us with these releases criminals. Look at car break ins. There up only 800 percent in some areas
More robberies and thefts to support there habits.I hope they commit these crimes against you morons who voted for your governor.
… disgusting…. only in Cali 🙁
Great, more chances my house will get robbed by the non-violent drug addicts that will be roaming the streets. Sunday night some creep rang my doorbell 3 times, I turned on the porch light and he asked where is Safeway. Swear someone coached him to say that in English as he didn’t understand a word I said. I pointed, as he held a flip phone by his head. Thought he was getting coached by someone. He walked away with his dark clothes on wearing an empty backpack. I really felt violated.
When do you think Newscum will sign a bill that protects law-abiding, tax-paying citizens? Silly me.
best part you can not stop them
they used the machines for the general election and it worked like a charm
the newscum kept his job thanks to the machines
and as the future will tell
in all elections
every voter is a dem voter
or rather just always more than other votes
you wanted dems and their liews and corruption as did your dem neighbor
now you got it
and have to live with it
best part now yur kids are being indoctrinated to hate you for giving them a safe happy well fed home with hard working parents
man this is awesome to watch
cant wait for my arm band and a whistle
to send you off to re education camps
let freedom die with ignorance and corruption
some 250 years of freedom and stability
now china will push to enslave all countries
thanks to your dem voting neighbor
and german machines
oh wait errr
coincidence ………..
what does crook weiner define as “mass incarceration?” If the offense is considered “low-level,” what type of rehabilitation is that? Probation? Sentence to probation for a crime that will not lead to jail anyway? What are they going to treat? Success rates for drug treatment typically are about 2-20%. So, as WC-Creeker and others have said, this just opens we law abiding citizens up for pleasant visits in the middle of the night as our property is non-violently removed from our possession.
When Newsom and Weiner are in lockstep so to speak, their collective IQ plummets.
Gavin Newsom has got to be the biggest horses a** in the country.
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Got to keep the POC out of jail no matter what crime they commit.
108RS
I don’t care about those who use drugs, its their body, and theirs to abuse as they wish. What I am concerned about, ..the lengths addicts will go to get the money to purchase the drugs. IF society were to allow the drug addicts to do “their thing”, society should also hold those who commit “property crimes” and/or “acts of violence” (reasons don’t matter) accountable to the degree of felony.
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