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Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Experiment Takes a Dark Turn: Fentanyl Crisis Sparks State of Emergency
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Posted on 02/01/2024 6:54:13 AM PST by davikkm
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posted on
02/01/2024 6:54:13 AM PST
by
davikkm
To: davikkm
All that dope is flowing in from China via Mexico over the non-existent border, the one that Biden and Mayorkas erased. American lives don’t mean a thing to them.
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posted on
02/01/2024 6:58:25 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: davikkm
A liberal social experiment with tragic unintended consequences? Who could have possibly predicted that would happen!
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posted on
02/01/2024 6:58:59 AM PST
by
Stosh
To: davikkm
A real shame nobody saw this coming. (Eye roll)
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posted on
02/01/2024 6:59:05 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
To: davikkm
Just another branch of the Democrat’s government displaying it’s total inability to govern. The only real ability they have is to blame someone else for their failure or ask for more tax payer money to “fix” the problem.
To: davikkm
If drugs were to be decriminalized and legal gambling increased, then things like welfare and socialized medicine and other government handouts for the most part should have been abolished.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:15:29 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: davikkm
Democrats are such idiots.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:18:56 AM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
To: davikkm
That’s another way to dodge your $300K in student loans.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:22:04 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say about our leaders. Your refrigerator )
To: OttawaFreeper
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:23:57 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
To: antidemoncrat
Government only rewards its own failures. The bigger the failure, the bigger the increased funding.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:24:37 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say about our leaders. Your refrigerator )
To: davikkm
Has anybody told the idiots in Oregon about this?
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:26:53 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
To: All
shifted focus to addiction and recovery, with police issuing citations for public drug use
The "citation" provides absolutely NO incentive for the person to WANT to recover from addiction. Instead, it enables them to continue their addiction. There are endless resources providing food, shelter, clothing and care for addicts who then are free to focus on the sole pursuit of scoring drugs. Every time I see somebody drop a dollar into the bucket of an "exit ramp" beggar, I see somebody basically buying drugs for an addict.
Our society has lost the will to FORCE addicts to recover. With FORCE meaning prison, monitored probation, involuntary mental health commitments, etc. We use the term "compassion" when it actually means "enabling".
Rampant drug abuse is like a large black cancer just decimating this country. I think we're screwed.
To: Stosh
Indeed. It was a “dark turn” the day it was enacted
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:36:36 AM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: davikkm
“Despite hopes that a more compassionate approach would address addiction, the reality has been starkly different.”
There is no greater destroyer of society than what I call, “pathological compassion”. The type of feel good “compassion” that ruins the receiver, the giver and society in general.
This is a great example of it.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:41:59 AM PST
by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
To: j.havenfarm
It’s been a long, slow process. This was done by a vote of the people. That comes down to getting 50% +1 of the people that actually vote. Which is about 50% of those that bother to register, which is about 50% of those eligible.
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posted on
02/01/2024 7:54:21 AM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: davikkm
Hand it out by the scoop full for all I care. China will send as much as we need. People know a very small amount of that poison will kill you, full stop, but they’ll do it anyway. Once stupidity was outlawed, society ceased evolving.
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posted on
02/01/2024 8:08:59 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: davikkm
Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Experiment Takes a Dark Turn.
How many what the hell were you thinking questions do the need before the have an answer.
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posted on
02/01/2024 8:13:39 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: mmichaels1970
Recovery from addiction is pretty hard.
Expensive and long, excruciating process with rather small percentage of success.
The best solution is NEVER try!
Kind of the Nancy Reagan “just say NO!”
These people message is “Be safe, if you choose to do the drugs!”
That is just an invitation for young people to try - “You can be safe, you know!”
Huge mistake!
Like everything lefties do.
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posted on
02/01/2024 8:50:31 AM PST
by
AZJeep
To: davikkm
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posted on
02/01/2024 8:58:29 AM PST
by
jagusafr
( )
To: AZJeep
Recovery from addiction is pretty hard. Expensive and long, excruciating process with rather small percentage of success.People change only when they are ready to, not before. It is an internal thing, there has to be a compelling reason.
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posted on
02/01/2024 11:23:19 AM PST
by
verga
(In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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