I was in Lisbon years ago and it was like the Tenderloin in San Francisco. Junkie zombies everywhere. They’ve turned that around.

In case anyone’s interested in how Portugal handles this stuff, here’s an interview with João Goulão, the guy who decided Portugal’s approach.

https://youtu.be/LH0LBPfRjIs

I mean coerced treatment in the sense that if you reject services, there are consequences to that. They don’t automatically toss you in jail if you reject services, but you can be required to do community service or pay fines.

> The city has yet to release specific boundaries for the conversion plan, but a map in the task force's report highlights sections of Midtown where housing is barred.

This is the only thing close to such a map that I see in the hyperlink. This doesn’t look like a map that “highlights sections of Midtown where housing is barred.” This looks like an extremely small section of what I consider “midtown,” and mainly looks like downtown, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Ok?

There’s one in the story someone posted yesterday.

The videos of the walk to the platforms kind of blew my mind. It’s like an airport.

$11 billion

N-bomb?

Do you mean this?

They won't find good jobs when they're dead or incapacitated from their drug habit, either.

I really do believe the best way to deal with this is Portugal's approach. But it seems like a nonstarter because it involves both policing (which the progressives don't like) and investments in treatment and safe use sites (which conservatives and many moderates don't like).

I would support injection sites if it were coupled with a form of coercive treatment. Normalizing public hard drug use is a bad thing for a society.

> No it doesn’t.

>They spend a few days at rikers, get let out, and do it again.

So you arrest them again. We have over 30,000 cops that we pay salaries.

The best policy, in my view, would be to arrest people who use in public and offer them a choice of treatment or jail. Like how they do it in Portugal.

It fixes the problem of that junkie shooting up on the corner.

Let me guess: you also believe that going after street-level dealers isn’t going to fix anything?

Sure, why not, it’s essentially legal to shoot up in public now anyway. We need to remove all fear of legal consequences from hard drug use.

> “Now, when we talk about a sanctuary city that is codified in law, there was a lawsuit, and this is a state and city of law and order. The courts rule that this is a sanctuary city. We have a moral obligation to fulfill that,” Adams said on WABC’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning” radio show.

Word salad.

Do it in Queens.

Are management in the union?

> Our main demands are a $50,000 minimum salary, diversity and inclusion language written into our contract . . .

What language specifically?

Maybe they want to address the problem of the disproportionately low percentages of men who work in publishing?

Michigan is a great market from what I’ve seen.

Bye!

>An extra $5 an eighth

😂

Yeah but on the plus side you get the virtuous feeling of supporting a business owned by a justice involved person.

I was hoping the web site would be on the internet.

No web site, apparently. 😂

Good luck competing with the 1,400 unlicensed stores.