Oregon Poised To Decriminalize Meth, Cocaine And Heroin

dailycaller.com ^ | 7/7/17 | Anders Hagstrom

[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.

[VietVet876]

Way cool. Unleash the Darwin!

[TTFX]

Visit a rescue center, sit outside a drug treatment center, and see for yourself the anguish and hopelessness in the eyes of the addicted.

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All that is occurring while drugs are illegal. Therefore, making drugs illegal doesn’t stop what you’re talking about.

[beelzepug]

No, of course not. Let them keep right on driving high and killing people. It will go a long ways in cutting the traffic congestion on our out-dated freeways. /s not req’d

[BobL]

Cool, glad you were able to keep an OPEN MIND. Most people cannot.

[DoodleBob]

Two questions....

1. We had to pass the 18th Amendment to ban booze. What is the Constitutional basis for the drug war?

2. If what's happening in Oregon has you agitated, please explain why this poster is not stupid?

I firmly understand the impact drugs has on people. I've seen it. I've also seen the impact booze has on people. They're both ugly. Why the double-standard?

I agree on cutting the government "bail out" of addicts. And I get the slippery slope argument. So why not pass a Constitutional amendment banning drugs? It's what the Founders would support. But let's not fool ourselves. We are either we are for freedom and the Constitution or not. You can't be partly pregnant.

[BobL]

It NEVER ENDS for them. In Europe, they’re well on the way to implementing their ‘final solution’ to the ‘white problem’, by repopulating their countries to assure that Western Culture NEVER can materialize again.

...and they are well on their way, beyond the tipping point, and now to the point of needing someone even more vicious than Hitler to turn things back (i.e., their new arrivals are not about to go back to the old country peacefully).

We can either stop them now, when it is relatively EASY, or we’ll have to try to fight them...fight them when they’re much younger and much, much, more populous than they are now (thanks to flooding the country with immigrants).

In other words, we either fight them now when we can still easily defeat them, or we’re condemned to the BLOODBATH that will soon ensue in Western Europe.

[factoryrat]

You ever see what meth does to a person? There’s an epidemic of it right now in eastern WA and OR.

Ever see a 20 something person who looks like they’re closer to 80? Less than 6 months on meth will either kill you, or mess you up for the rest of your short miserable life. Oh, and us taxpayers have to cover their “rehab” which is more like hospice for meth zombies.

[factoryrat]

You ever see what meth does to a person? There’s an epidemic of it right now in eastern WA and OR.

Ever see a 20 something person who looks like they’re closer to 80? Less than 6 months on meth will either kill you, or mess you up for the rest of your short miserable life. Oh, and us taxpayers have to cover their “rehab” which is more like hospice for meth zombies.

[stars & stripes forever]

[making drugs illegal doesn’t stop what you’re talking about]

I stand by my statement - legal or illegal.

[TTFX]

Oh, and us taxpayers have to cover their “rehab” which is more like hospice for meth zombies.

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Right, taxpayers pay for the war on drugs, which fails, and then taxpayers pay for the treatment.

So you yourself have refuted your own position. If having taxpayers pay for the war on drugs worked, then there would be no treatment necessary for them to pay.

Make drugs legal and at least save money by not having taxpayers pay the completely ineffective war on drugs.

[stars & stripes forever]

[making drugs illegal doesn’t stop what you’re talking about]

I stand by my statement.

[little jeremiah]

Now that OR is fully owned and controlled by commiepukes, it’s quickly becoming hell on earth. I live in SW rural OR and crime is through the roof due to the legalization of growing large amounts of dope. 95% of growers are not permitted or licensed and thus illegal. Tons of out of state felons moved in. They’re sucking water illegally and using who knows what kinds of chemicals, polluting streams etc. Shootouts, car theft and breakins more and more common.

It’s insane.

So now they want to legalize the other drugs, fan-f***ing-takstic.

At least that will bring real estate prices down again, they immediately went out of reach for ordinary people once mj was legalized, felons from all over came here with wads of cash to buy property for illegal growing ops.

[Red Steel]

So Oregon wants to be the Mecca for drugs.

[mosesdapoet]

Thanks for posting that slide from “Ghostbreakers” I remember that line Hope used it worked then and still works today.

[gundog]

Through the grapevine, I’ve heard that a former sheriff, a circuit court judge, city councilor(past) have been users of methamphetamine. I’m sure some lawyers are, too. This is just my little county. Some can handle meth. Some of the others robbed my neighbors home over the holiday weekend. If Kate Brown signs this, I hope she’s doomed in the next election. This gynocracy is killing us.

[gundog]

Through the grapevine, I’ve heard that a former sheriff, a circuit court judge, city councilor(past) have been users of methamphetamine. I’m sure some lawyers are, too. This is just my little county. Some can handle meth. Some of the others robbed my neighbor’s home over the holiday weekend. If Kate Brown signs this, I hope she’s doomed in the next election. This gynocracy is killing us.

[43north]

“When drugs are legal the quality is better, the drug one gets is less likely to be diluted with more dangerous substances, so therefore they will cause less loss of self control or other harmful effects to the users.”

Are you nuts or just stoned? Its NOT the adulterants that cause aberrant behavior, ITS THE DRUGS!

[43north]

“When drugs are legal the quality is better, the drug one gets is less likely to be diluted with more dangerous substances, so therefore they will cause less loss of self control or other harmful effects to the users.”

Are you nuts or just stoned? Its NOT the adulterants that cause aberrant behavior, ITS THE DRUGS!

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,,,,, Portland Oregon will become America’s NEEDLE PARK ,,, perhaps at Washington Park .

[NobleFree]

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.

I doubt demand will go up much, because I doubt there are many people who are both undeterred by the inherent harms of these drugs and deterred by the risk of arrest. I agree that this change doesn't address the biggest problem of drug criminalization: enriching the criminals who sell the drugs.