Posted on 11/04/2020 7:40:51 AM PST by grundle
Oregon voters just approved a ballot initiative which decriminalizes personal usage of small amounts of heroin and cocaine.
However, it is still illegal to manufacture, distribute, or sell these drugs on a commercial scale.
Therefore, people who use these drugs will still be getting them from illegal manufacturers, distributors, and sellers.
Which means that the problems of contamination, unknown levels of potency, gangs, drive by shootings, etc., will still be possible.
In order to get rid of these problems, the drugs need to be legalized at all levels of manufacturing, distribution, and sale.
Only then, when the drugs are fully legal, and are manufactured by brand name companies whose reputations are on the line, and whose labels list all of the ingredients, as well as the exact concentration and potency of the drugs, will we be able to see what happens when these drugs are legalized.
As it stands now, with the drugs decriminalized only for personal usage, but still banned for manufacturing, distribution, and sale on a commercial scale, it will be impossible for users to know for certain what exactly is in their drugs, or how strong they are. And in order to buy the drugs, users will still be interacting with criminals.
By legalizing these drugs for personal usage, but continuing with the ban on on commercial scale manufacturing, distribution, and sale, how exactly is this supposed to work?
Decriminalize =/= legal
It’s kinda like speeding is not criminal, but it can cost you. Reckless driving is criminal, and a misdemeanor.
I think they are saying they don’t want to bother with users, but focus on the bad guys. Frankly, they can do that by using users as a starting point.
It’s supposed to work by effing up our kids and society.
So, if I run across a woman who acts heroically, I am permitted to bend her to my personal use.
Bet she won’t like that.
Addicts get treatment instead of being placed in a cage with violent criminals and losing any chance of getting a job in the future.
Dealers still get jail
This is golden opportunity to turn OR red. We need make sure there is a huge supply of free heroin in OR. Let all these Marxist bastards overdose and die.
Do you think they have actually thought all of this through?
Socialists don’t understand how the economy works. They think drugs are magically delivered out of the anus of a unicorn with the face of Jerry Garcia.
Hopefully decent Americans will be able to ignore pesky Federal laws and regulations that disrupt their lives. Decent conservative need to have their own sanctuary enclaves. Walled enclaves might be necessary.
It makes not one whit of difference how it is SUPPOSED to work. Laws NEVER work the way they are supposed to work. Just look at Prohibition. Just look at California's Proposition 47 that sets $950 as the amount a person can steal without facing felony charges which has led to all the Target stores in San Francisco closing because brazen thieves sweep the shelves clean and strut right out the front door while clerks and other shoppers just watch.
They gotta do something to cope with their Leftwing parents loving the smell of their own farts.
After voting to support the terrorists candidate Biden, they deserve all the heroin plague.
Are they going to make users take responsibility for their actions? Will they get NO WELFARE MONEY? Will they get NO FREE PRESCRIPTIONS? No free OBAMAPHONE? no free HOUSING?
The answer is obvious. The normal people who actually go out to work and don’t use drugs get to pay.
As always.
Wouldn’t that be special?
The way it’s supposed to work is that it’s supposed to remove law enforcement resources away from mere users. Theoretically this will concentrate the resources on manufacturers, distributors and dealers, not that America has a noteworthy string of successes in the prohibition department.
Give every druggie a one way ticket so they can hopefully OD.
Have no mercy.
Nothing helps society more than enabling people become hard core addicts with no consequences to the addict, but huge consequences for society itself both financially and culturally.
Singapore has the right solution to the drug epidemic.
We can’t coexist with these dangerous people.
Let the kooks have a section of Oregon and leave them to it. Send every liberal there with just the clothes they have.
No money, no technology, no tools, no anything.
Meanwhile prescription opioids for chronic pain patients are practically prohibited.
The CSA is IMO unconstitutional. But even if some people believe that Feds can regulate drugs in general, the case for them regulating the practice of medicine and prescriptions is that much weaker.
Think of it. An addict can pretty much buy heroin and shoot up unsupervised without risking prosecution. But a cancer patient can’t or has a very hard time getting much safer prescription opioids because the doctor fears prosecution by FED DOJ
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