( KRON ) — One of the more divisive measures on the November ballot is Proposition 36. Instead of lessening punishment for drug and property crimes, Prop 36 increases sentencing and, in some cases, requires mandatory drug treatment.
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“We can all have a state that cares enough to require and provide treatment, and that’s what this is about,” San Jose mayor Matt Mahan said.
On Thursday, politicians and those in recovery gathered outside San Francisco’s Delancey Street Foundation to support Prop 36.
“I know it will give us more opportunity to get people in treatment and to give people who are ambivalent the help they need, ” Gregg Johnson from the Treatment Prevention Academy said.
Prop 36 revises Prop 47, which passed in 2014. Prop 47 reduced sentences for nonviolent drug crimes as well as property theft when the items stolen totaled less than $950. The money saved by sending fewer people to prison went into funding mental health and drug abuse treatment.