No.
This will be a disaster. The good news is that the drug addicted transients will all head to Portland.
Sick. Completely sold out to the Chicom communist/globalists.
As with all their hare-brained schemes, the actual results predictably will be the exact opposite of what they proclaim at the outset. Then they’ll blame the other side for their failure and say they need more money, time, resources, etc. Thomas Sowell wrote a great book about this sort of thing.
The question becomes one of attendant crime, health care, lodging, sanitation and disposal of the dead. The communists no doubt have all of those consequences figured out.
The US is now officially a third world nation with no laws nor responsibility.
O-re-gone will now become a global narco trans shipping port.
and the fools will think they have created a new “industry”, creating many jobs in the openly marxist precipitated decline , destruction and decay of the republic.
Probably good to invest in narcan
The problem with law enforcement of dangerous drugs is an over emphasis on going after possession and an under emphasis and lack the prime priority to go after the dealers and the distribution networks - those are whom really have to be “taken off the street”. Tons of convictions for possession but then the dealers are still in business along with those who supply the dealers.
However decriminalization only sees one half of that (the addict) and does nothing about ending the creation of new addicts - getting the dealers and criminal networks out of business.
The District passed Prop 81, 76-34%.
It decriminalizes all plants (and fungi). ‘Shrooms, cacti, coca, poppies, whatever. But not processed substances.
Presumably Hunter Biden’s new state of residence.
What? That will be a big job loss for people who haul the drugs to Oregon, Cops who arrest the street sellers, judges who conduct trials, lawyers who prosecute the drug users & sellers, lawyers for the defense, prison guards who watch the convicted, food services which cater food to prisoners, builders of prison buildings to house the convicts, janitors who maintain the prison and court, and countless more people in the food chain.
Who is going to employ all these people when they lose their well paid jobs?
"People suffering from addiction are more effectively treated with health care services than with criminal punishments," the bill states.
There is no way the addict can overcome addiction without treatment for the addiction. I am not advocating treatment for traffickers or promoters of drugs. The choice is sending them to an effective drug recovery program or imprisoning addicts. If sent to prison they are going to return again and again.
If you live through the hell of an addicted child you will discover the heart can actually cause a physical pain when sorrowed so deeply. Many of these addicts are actually "hooked" on narcotics that are doctor prescribed. When these are withdrawn, the patient seeks any medication available. Heroin is actually cheap at first and so... Please don't misunderstand, I abhor drugs but many of us 'priviledged, white women have gone through the addiction experience with a beloved child. Would you really prefer prison over a cure for your own child? Or is prison just a choice for other people's children?
The problem is that people that use these drugs don’t want to cure their addiction. In the past in Oregon an arrest was a motivator to get treatment. Now the addicted will just have to get an evaluation and continue using the drug. This will do nothing for the illegal drug trade from being abolished in Oregon. In fact now the use of these addictive and harmful drugs will grow among the young.
Meth heads of America unite in Oregon.
We should all buy bus tickets for dope addicts to go to Portland. Money well spent.
The coast used to be a nice place to vacation to. No way am I going now.