Kentucky's War on Drug Addiction

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Kentucky's War on Drug Addiction

"More police

🚔. More jails

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😂 The joke is on us.

🤦🏻‍♂️ Drug abuse is a mental health issue, not a criminal one.

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💉 People turn to drugs not because they want to be addicts, but because something is horribly wrong and they simply don’t wish to feel it anymore.

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😞 I’ve never met an addict who on career day at school “dreamed” of being an addict like U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan “dreamed” of taking #Medicare and #Medicaid from citizens.

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Putting drug addicts in jail is like putting people who have an illness and need medical care in jail and simply ignoring the underlying problem. But why not? We’ve been doing it this long and we never change anything here unless ordered to do so by the Kentucky Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of the United States. Sadly, that is how progress is made here." - Jordan Palmer

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This is the personal blog (opinion) of Col. Jordan Palmer. Jordan Palmer is a Kentucky Colonel, the president of Kentucky Equality Federation, and the general commanding officer of the Southeastern Kentucky Brigade of Kentucky Colonels. Jordan Palmer is a former national Board member and Vice President of Development of the national Marriage Equality USA. This blog is a personal blog not affiliated with any organization or group.

This blog is personal, and in absolutely no way reflects the view, opinion, or official position of any organization Jordan Palmer currently or has previously represented.

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Kentucky Spirit is the official blog of Col. Jordan Bowling Palmer. The Honorable Jordan Palmer has been a critical part of civil liberties in the commonwealth of Kentucky and is also a public advocate.

CURRENT POSITIONS HELD:

Col. Palmer is Secretary-General of the Southern Kentucky Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (also knows as the Southern Kentucky Brigade of Kentucky Colonels).

Col. Palmer is the Secretary-General of the Kentucky Equality Federation and its member organizations, including Kentucky Equal Ballot Access, etc.

Col. Palmer is the Principal Liasion at the United Nations for the United States Midwest for ILGA.

ABOUT COL. JORDAN BOWLING PALMER, CHA, CP, JD:

Col. Jordan Bowling Palmer has been in active in civil rights and a public advocate for over a decade.

--> From protesting former Governor Fletcher and later Representative Fischer for saying "gays had not suffered enough", sponsoring a Soulforce Equality Ride, forcing school boards to allow Gay-Straight Alliances, rallying at Northern Kentucky University and the Hazard Pavilion, forcing policy changes, organizing Kentucky's 1st Gay Marriage License Day, assisting in restoring KADAP, to successfully pushing the 1st Federal Hate Crime convictions in U.S. History, to having Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban struck down by a Kentucky judge months before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue in Kentucky Equality Federation v Commonwealth of Kentucky (based solely on Palmer's legal theory). His accomplishments speak for themselves and his impact on Kentucky history, undeniable.

Jordan Palmer also fought Prop 8 in the state of California.

Written by Damon T. Jones, Communications Director to Secretary-General Palmer.

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