Posted on 07/09/2017 9:47:58 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Oregon legislature passed two bills Thursday decriminalizing small amounts of six hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy.
The first of the two bills now headed to the governor’s desk, HB 2355, decriminalizes possession of the drugs so long as the offender has neither a felony nor more than two prior drug convictions on record, according to the Lund Report. The second, HB 3078, reduces drug-related property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
Republican State Sen. Jackie Winters claimed the war on drugs as it currently exists amounts to “institutional racism” due to how more frequently minorities are charged with drug crimes than whites.
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Post of the year....truth.
Maybe many here would disagree, but I recall a few years ago Ann Coulter making the point that back when drugs and brothels were legal (you could snort cocaine right in front of the U.S. Capitol Building without issue when Lincoln was President and you probably could have done the same thing in front of the old Parliament Buildings when Sir John A MacDonald was my country’s Prime Minister), there was no welfare and other government goodies to get addicted to.
Therefore, those who would advocate drug legalization ought to also consider getting the government out of welfare and propping up single mothers who keep getting knocked up and going from boyfriend to boyfriend, in the name of consistency (if nothing else I guess).
Good. The war on drugs cause more damage than the drugs themselves.
Without illegal drugs, the cartels stop existing due to competition, and of course, cartel related deaths drop to zero. Then the people who are hurt by drugs are mainly those who choose to use it.
It’ll be open season on druggies, tweakers, crackheads, and drug dealers if that happens.
The state MAY make it legal, but the people can still adhere to federal law.
If you’re an advocate of pot, coke, meth, heroin, or any other illegal drug, the state might make it legal to possess; the residents on the other hand.....
Between the tweakers and the mexican drug cartels, it’s open season in Oregon. Keep that in mind.
Aren’t we all Libertarians in some form? Eastern Oregon is desolate. I say more power to them. Cops should have their say.
And when users start preying on honest citizens to support their habits, what then?
You need to call Children’s Division
>Meth is a white thing
Nope. It’s a under class thing in general now.
She’s black first, then a republican.
Partial decriminalization will have the exact opposite effect from the one they think they are going to get.
Go all the way or don’t do anything, but this will just fuel demand.
What could go wrong?
Whoo yah! Can you just imagine the cars on the road? So glad I got to see what I wanted of that state already cause this will fly.
Whoo yah! Can you just imagine the cars on the road? So glad I got to see what I wanted of that state already cause this will fly.
Sorry BobL, but I don't believe marijuana is a Gateway Drug. That belief, and that argument, is no different than those who favored (then opposed the repeal of) prohibition.
If most of the people you know have tried marijuana at some point in the past, and I'm sure more than half have, then by your logic more than half of the people you know are users of cocaine or meth or heroin.
While this is not good, with some modifications, it might not be entirely bad, either. Here’s the logic.
In Amsterdam, hard drugs have remained illegal. However, the police have set up testing stations, and without penalty, anyone can bring a small sample of a hard drug in for testing, to determine purity, adulteration, and any dangerous contamination. If the drug is what it is supposed to be then fine, they can go their own way. But if it is contaminated with something that could harm or kill, they want to know who sold it, so they can get it off the streets.
Their logic is that they prefer some hard drug use to deadly contamination that could kill lots of people.
But what does this have to do with us?
Already tens of thousands of Americans are dying because the opiates they thought they were buying, prescription and illegal, have been contaminated with much cheaper, but dangerously potent opiates. (33,000 died from opiate overdoses in 2015 alone.)
10-12 million Americans regularly take opiates.
So if Oregon wants to be a decriminalization experiment, the least it could do would be to try and intercept contaminated hard drugs as well, before they kill Americans hundreds at a time.
I do child abuse cases in the meth capital of the country. Methheads are white. They care more about the meth than they do their kids.
>Good. The war on drugs cause more damage than the drugs themselves.
>Without illegal drugs, the cartels stop existing due to competition, and of course, cartel related deaths drop to zero. Then the people who are hurt by drugs are mainly those who choose to use it.
I used think this way, then I chatted with an actual criminologist. Most crimes are committed while on drugs and worse most people who would ordinarily control themselves and not commit crimes lose that ability when high. Sure there’s plenty of functional drugs users but those are mostly upper class people. For the lower and under class drug use destroys their minds and cause massive increases in crime.
Legalizing drugs will result in a massive increase in criminal activity because it loosens rational thinking and inhibitions.
>I do child abuse cases in the meth capital of the country. Methheads are white. They care more about the meth than they do their kids.
Where I live in California meth heads are white, black, and Hispanic.
Oregon: We welcome those who seek death.
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