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Drugs should be decriminalized.
But there’s shouldn’t be any government welfare, hospitals shouldn’t have to take anyone that doesn’t have insurance, and cops should be able to arrest anyone who commits crimes.
Drugs should be decriminalized.
It can take down the US too, which is probably the idea of legalizing it, or its modern equivalents like fentanyl.
Laws don't stop people from doing drugs
Had two people I know die/OD a week and a half ago. Had a kid crawling around the house for two days over their dead bodies. I've experienced the addiction from people I know well beyond that story.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure opiates should remain illegal. It's not a question of freedom. You're not really free to stop when your free will has been taken over by it.
How the fuck are people still defending the War on Us, something even the central government admits is a failure.
That's horrifying.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia saysDrugs should be decriminalized.
Opium took down China and the Ottoman Empire.
It can take down the US too, which is probably the idea of legalizing it, or its modern equivalents like fentanyl.
LOL but it's still a Federal Crime. The dip shit Liberals are going to keep pushing the envelope until Federal law makes Drug use a capital crime, punishable by death.
DrugsOne of the main components of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime I commented on in another post. Authors call the year 1965 as the "fulcrum" over which our society tilted and drugs were at the core of virtually every violent crime from then on. Our society made the decision in the mid-60's during the still booming postwar economy, either consciously or subconsciously that, knowing all the problems that alcohol had historically caused--and yet it is still illegal to those under 18 or 21 depending on where you live--that we were rich enough to add a whole additional level of addictions to our society's problems. So 55 years later we have a permanently entrenched drug culture and an accompanying monolith of social services agencies that tries to keep the chaos and self-destruction manageable as much as possible as evidenced over and over by the terrible Re twins, Rehab and Relapse.
Opiates is no different.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia saysDrugs should be decriminalized.
Opium took down China and the Ottoman Empire.
It can take down the US too, which is probably the idea of legalizing it, or its modern equivalents like fentanyl.
Patrick saysFuckTheMainstreamMedia saysDrugs should be decriminalized.
Opium took down China and the Ottoman Empire.
It can take down the US too, which is probably the idea of legalizing it, or its modern equivalents like fentanyl.
I bet I know which sunny state Oregon send their hobo crackheads to once crisis really gets bad.
you might enjoy listening to this:Bad 70's color, caused by lack of silver nitrate, one of the many commodities shortages of the 70's caused by Wage and Price Controls II that caused so many distortions in markets. At the time this was done, inflation was double digit with no end in sight. Like Friedman said, Carter had not sought his advice. He makes the point at 6:37 that at that time 40% of the income of working people was being taken by government--he wondered if they thought they were getting their money's worth.
I imagine the Chinese are singing sweet revenge by destroying American society with cheap and available narcotics. it's their gift for the Opium Wars of the past that enslaved the Chinese to narcotics. Tit for Tat.
Once you're really in it, no amount of free will will get you out of it.
Well, that was the English. America is not England. We fought a revolution against them.
Crime is also a massive issue with heroin. Same with crack. You'll do almost anything to get the next high. I've met guys with $5k/mo habits.
along with sheltering and housing resources, as long as they agreed to the sequestration rules.It sounds good in theory, but by that time they're are so mentally ill they won't submit to any kind of rules or regulations regarding housing.
Ceffer saysalong with sheltering and housing resources, as long as they agreed to the sequestration rules.It sounds good in theory, but by that time they're are so mentally ill they won't submit to any kind of rules or regulations regarding housing.
China imported more goods than it exported.
Oregon Public Broadcasting ran a heartening story last week headlined, “Oregon cities join police, prosecutors in push to recriminalize drug possession.” Imagine that.
You’re probably already thinking that the headline merely shows a crumb of common sense, more useless than the finely shredded fibers left over on the inside of an empty weed baggie. But that’s as harsh as a year-old joint found down in the bottom of the crack of the couch.
Portlanders’ common sense must be graded on a curve.
Back in 2020, in a massive wave of psilocybin-fueled virtue signaling, Oregonians resoundingly passed the now infamous Ballot Measure 110, widely lauded as the state’s “pioneering” drug decriminalization law. The new law decriminalized possession of hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, and fentanyl. Instead, Oregon police are now only allowed to hand out $100 civil citations. And the $100 fines are waived when druggies call a toll-free substance-abuse help line that offers free out- or in-patient treatment.
Predictably, it utterly failed. The druggies don’t even bother calling the help line. Out of 6,200 issued fines, only 50 called the toll-free number. Police officers tell stories of things like druggies immediately and non-virtuously littering by throwing the citations away right in front of cops. One officer said he watched a druggie use the citation paper to wrap and smoke a joint.
After two years of monitoring civilization’s meltdown, many Oregonians are finally sobering up to the problem, and they now want to re-criminalize drug possession after all. Local KOIN-6 reported that, since BM110’s passage, “the drug crisis has grown exponentially.” The station even made a helpful flow chart showing how poorly-flowing is the current, constipated BM110 system:
So Oregonians are now having some hard conversations about how to fix their free-wheeling, reality-defying, not-so-Brave New World. Options include flat-out re-criminalization, involuntary drug treatment that is like jail, but with mental-health services, or a wide variety of hybrid approaches.
But nobody (except the ACLU, and who cares?) seems to think the current system is working.
Maybe the liberal paradise of Oregon is finally feeling the cold water of reality splashed into its sleepy face. Or … maybe … the conservative counter-revolution is even sweeping into distant liberal lands like Portland.
After two years of monitoring civilization’s meltdown, many Oregonians are finally sobering up to the problem, and they now want to re-criminalize drug possession after all.
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This is good news for California. Addicts, heads, and homeless will be heading to Oregon to reap the bounty of cheap drugs and no enforcement.
It'll be like fleas jumping off your dog to go to another dog. Do they have amnesty and non-extradition for Hunter Biden?