People struggling with drug abuse or addiction may indeed harm themselves and their families, but criminalization and social marginalization are not going to help them.
"That doesn't mean we don't do it," he added, "but it means we have to question the system itself and what we can do to destabilize the dynamics that lead to trans women of color and black trans women in particular from being routinely funneled into the system and spending much of their lives navigating criminalization".
He called for hearings, a special report and a Board of Supervisors resolution condemning Mr. Gascón's remarks as part of a pattern of Arabs being subjected to "criminalization of their identity and guilt by association".
All across the world, governments are rethinking their attitudes toward the criminalization of cannabis.
A report by Margaret Sekaggya, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, creates a damning picture of just how dangerous it is to be a woman human rights defender: documented cases of death threats, rape, smear campaigns and the criminalization of their work by state authorities.
To the sound of everything from baroque arias to hip-hop beats, they speak out against the criminalization of their trade and tell the other side of the sex industry story.
"While the government is right to include and focus on the families of these women, I have fear that the realities of Indigenous sex workers, who continue to live in fear and who continue to experience violence as a result of criminalization of their lives in multiple ways, including the criminalization of sex work, will not be addressed".
People who inject drugs (PWID) have high rates of imprisonment, largely due to the criminalization of their drug use and to the tendency to fund drug use through crime.
After all, the British policy of criminalization depended on their assertions that the IRA had little public support and was a band of renegade criminals.
Many scientists believe salvia should be regulated like alcohol or tobacco, but worry that criminalization would encumber their research before it bears fruit.
