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SUPPORT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT and DIVERSION PROGRAMS
Non-violent drug offenders would be placed in appropriate treatment facilities, reducing the prison population and dramatically reducing state budget costs.

SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Medical marijuana has proven effectiveness in helping chronically and terminally ill patients. Improved legislation will allow doctors to qualify eligible patients to grow a small ammount at home, without any legal penalty to the physician. (Medical Marijuana FAQ)

MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION
Why should we decriminalize or legalize marijuana?
As President Jimmy Carter acknowledged: "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."  Marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good, hard-working, productive citizens each year in this country.

SUPPORT METHADONE MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS
Expand on a successful pilot program in Waterbury that allowed doctors to prescribe methadone in a medical office setting and dispense it through pharmacies to stabilized working patients.

 SUPPORT OVERDOSE PREVENTION
Allow trained professional to carry and administer Narcan. Narcan's only use is to immediately reverse the effects of a heroin overdose.

Drug Free School Zones
Connecticut’s drug-free zone laws disproportionately incarcerate urban residents for simple drug possession and ignore White residents who are dying from drug-induced overdose deaths. (Drug Free School Zone Comparison). More information on this is available from the Justice Policy Institute in their report; Disparity by Design.

 

For those interested in tracking any of these pieces of legislation you can sign up to use the free tracking system provided by the Connecticut General Assembly at http://cga.ct.gov/aspx/cgapublicbilltrack/cgapublicbilltrack.aspx.

 

 

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