Posted on 11/04/2020 10:05:35 AM PST by Steve1999
With a pitch like that... I am prepared to make you the vice president of my charity...
They love it being done to us right now.
"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 When these are withdrawn, the patient seeks any medication available.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.
Drug court uses the best of both interventions: treatment backed up by the threat of incarceration for noncompliance.
Meth heads of America unite in Oregon.
We should all buy bus tickets for dope addicts to go to Portland. Money well spent.
Yes, and I think we should all offer to buy a one-way bus ticket to Portland for any addict who wants to go. It’s the least we can do.
The coast used to be a nice place to vacation to. No way am I going now.
I doubt a drive along 101 is going to seem much different, really.
Oregon Measure 110 decriminalized possession of small amounts of processed substances such as meth and heroin.
Oregon Measure 109 approved the Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program.
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