Posted on 11/04/2020 10:05:35 AM PST by Steve1999
Democrat-controlled Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize hard drugs, including meth, heroin, and cocaine, according to reports. The state's lawmakers passed legislation early on Wednesday morning in a 59-41% vote, according to the Associated Press. The "Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act" seeks to transition Oregon's drug policy from a punitive, criminal approach to "a humane, cost-effective, health approach."
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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.
“This will be a disaster. The good news is that the drug addicted transients will all head to Portland.”
They will be given free bus tickets paid for by taxpayers from other states. I’d chip in for the free heroin once they arrive.
Worse than that, the dumb@sses who voted for the legislature creatures who passed this will move to red areas, vote the same disasterous way, and you’ll have the same thing going on there, among other disasterous leftist policies.
Yes, but they'll fail to recognize it as such.
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?
An extra $5 will get him some crack..lets start him out right...and while w are at it... another $5 will get him a crack whore.
“Sick. Completely sold out to the Chicom communist/globalists.”
The Chinese don’t put up with this crap.
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