things reclassifying marijuana won't do:
•stop marijuana arrests
•release people in prison for marijuana
•expunge marijuana arrest records
•restore access to gov benefits lost for marijuana activity

things it WILL do:
▪︎give tax relief to pharma companies & marijuana businesses

this is unspeakable

Porn review boss urges further crackdown on extreme content The government has moved to ban online pornography showing women being choked

Politicians always imagine it's easy to censor "bad" or "extreme" sexual expression — only to find any definition illusive.

So laws get written incredibly broadly to compensate, and what's "bad" becomes what's "bad" in the subjective eyes of a bureaucrat ... or bank.

Guess who gets screwed.

PRESALE of two new shirts/sweatshirts
-- a throwback design and "nice people use drugs"
ENDS FRIDAY 11/21

bmorehrc.org/presale

#baltimore #harmreduction

syringes in a pipe

found during the Mayors Fall Clean Up this past Saturday

pulled out the plunger and placed needle side down in this pipe #harmreduction #baltimore #harmreduction

harm r3duction bingo card

feeling cheeky

#harmreduction #overdose

ICYMI: As long as these crackdowns continue, drug users will face a more lethal drug supply — and unhoused individuals will be forced to leave their community or go to a shelter that is ill-equipped to meet their needs.

The latest Redux Newsletter 🔽

mobtownredux.news/a-deeper-loo...

registration

medical cart

supervised

Modest demonstration Overdose Prevention Center set up in Lexington Market, and it was a delight
#harmreduction #overdoseprevention

Baltimore Accepts Offer for Fraction of the Opioid Settlement It Sought While city officials and harm reductionists express optimism, the decision will inevitably mean scaling back overdose prevention plans.

Baltimore opts to take a deal for a fraction of the huge opioid settlement it sought to address its severe OD crisis—$152 million, vs billions.

Harm reductionists are still optimistic the money can make a meaningful difference, reports @loganhullinger.bsky.social:

Virtual Kit-Making Volunteer Training learn a lil about harm reduction a lol abojt js and a lot about our kits Tuesdays 9/2 & 9/9 4PM~6PM sign up form: tinyurl.com/kitmakingform

wanna help PWUD? dont know how? live in and around Baltimore? volunteer with us to make kits! we hand out so many kits each week and although we spend a lot of time making them we definitely need help!

sign up at tinyurl.com/kitmakingform

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

Everyone should read this piece about the Epstein victims. It's their own words. It's their own stories.

www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

"As it now stands, however, no one is overseeing the training program, a problem that could’ve been avoided by having more organizations involved.

“Education of the sort shouldn’t be left to one agency” at a time of instability at the state and federal levels, said BHRC spokesperson Candy Kerr."

This cop is carrying a 'espantoon' which originated in and exclusively a Baltimore police nightstick.

What makes it distinct? The end that most would assume is the handle (called the Barrel head) is the end they use to hit you.

Attached is a leather strap that allows them to twirl it..for 'fun'.

15+

BAD BATCH Penn North multiple OD's happening roads closedoff & ambulances/ police presence avoid testers from the area and more dont addto the chaos by going over instead, alert your friends andothers who may encounter/ have acquired certain substances

mass OD event happening at Penn North right now-- word on the street is started happening after ppl had testers

if you're using/received anything from the area
GO SLOW
dont use alone, make sure you/person youre with has narcan
if you use alone, have narcan on you and do so in a place people are

🤬

LFG Baltimore

Drug inhalation is being choked off in Alberta Demand continues to increase dramatically for clean drug inhalation supplies, but procurement data obtained by Drug Data Decoded show the supply is being throttled back. Is the shortfall helping to dr...

Five years after the Lethbridge site was closed, the political motive to choke off inhalation supplies can be situated w/in this covert war on inhalation – most important mode of consumption.

All to force ppl into a prisoner's dilemma: get sober or get dead. 8/
drugdatadecoded.ca/recovery-alb...

this is maddening and incredibly true

uhhhhhh

the drugs aren't the bad piece of the equation.

#drugs #harmreduction

War on Drugs never stops
#blacksky

🗣️NOW MORE THAN EVER

Canada’s sovereignty is facing an existential threat over disproven allegations that illicit fentanyl, originating from Canada, is significantly contributing the American drug poisoning emergency.

This Bill is a dangerous and unfounded admission of guilt

🧵

#cdnpoli

www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Lots of folks failing to come to terms w this, assuming things will blow over, and giving me & peers the same old advice about optimizing for the academic job market. The work rn is to dig into community w those looking to build something else, not self-optimizing and gambling for the old to return

thank you for sharing!

MARYLANDERS!
for those who can't easily access IM/SUBQ for hormone injection, worry no more! if you're in the state reach out through
www.nextdistro.com/mdhi

#pridemonth #translives #happypride #harmreduction #genderaffirmingcare

Tomorrow our Pride issue comes out and @skamidi.bsky.social and @terihenderson.bsky.social did an amazing job with it.