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.
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.
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.
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
Face the facts: the war on drugs is a FAILURE.
Legalize it, tax it, and let the dumba$$ users off themselves with it.
Dopeheads could grow their own.
Coca plants and opium poppies are 100% natural.
They decriminalized female heroes?
This is a temporary problem for Oregon drug addicts, easily remedied in the next election. They will simply make it all legal.
“Frankly, they can do that by using users as a starting point.”
Maybe a good strategy but I don’t want to pay the costs to rehabilitate the addicts. To refer to Mother Teresa again, they must learn from their and their family’s suffering.
Actually, I’m willing for government to help some in these areas.
so will amazon be selling those now?
The title of the measure is the “Drug Dealers Relief Act of 2020.”
And about the conflict with Federal Law.....???