Also it’s so fucking annoying that all of the people pearl clutching in fear of shudders drug users in urban areas! shudders - areas that they’ve often never been to.

My family were so surprised to hear how much I loved visiting Portland and San Francisco - and I didn’t even tell them about my favorite part of tourism, carrying around smokes and meeting scary drug users!, who it turns out, are the same as me - but where I had fortunate breaks (either through blind luck (I grew up poor) or privilege (I grew up whitey)), someone decided it was better for society to cast them aside (or treat them with such little compassion that it’s the preferred option). Idk it pisses me off so much.

The best conversation I’ve had in a long time (and this is about talking to a person with a mental disorder, not to imply that he also is a drug user by proxy) was with a guy I’ll call “Lonnie” who was also watching the sun rise over Lake Michigan - he told me all about having schizotypal disorders and how he comes to watch the sun rise every day to try and stay grounded and connected to his grandma - his only living relative who had recently passed - and how it helps with preventing substance abuse.

Anyway my point is, treating people with kindness goes much further than criminalization.

And people wonder why we are so disgusted by the bourgeoisie.