Lawmakers in Oregon Pass Bill Reducing Penalties for Cocaine, Heroin, and Meth Possession

thegatewaypundit ^ | Carter

[FreedomNotSafety]

Law enforcement is an industry in this country. It is a big business that pays well and there is every incentive to generate more criminality. It also plays well into the Progs dream of controlling the lives of others. So why doesn’t Oregon finish decriminalizing the usage of drugs? Sort a like Ohio is against using pot, growing pot, and distributing pot unless there is a government apprved subscription for the pot, and then pot is sold by a state liscemsed pharmacy, and grown by a state franchised grower. Then all is well!!

[RideForever]

If Oregon creates a ‘farm’ where drug addicts can self-admit and grow their own, there’s a possibility of redemption. Staff it with counselors who can return druggies who bottom out with their souls intact and can be rehabilitated. If they work, they eat. If they OD, do not resuscitate.

We have a neighbor addicted to meth. He gets high, gets focused, and cuts and stacks 2 cord of wood in a day. We work with him because his heart is still in the right place. We also know he will sell us out the instant his addiction presses for more.

[pharmacopeia]

Portugal and Japan seem to demonstrate alternative approaches that have some success with the advantage of being cheaper than prisons.

Perhaps a mixed system and reforming our prisons to be more hospital and rehab like would be possible?

[NobleFree]

Iran does in fact execute drug users and still has one of the highest rates of opioid addiction in the Middle East. [...] In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Whether pot, heroin, meth, possession of less than a 10-day supply is punished with either a fine or drug treatment. Since 2001, rates of drug use in Portugal have fallen.

Quit spoiling our good time with your pesky facts.

[RC one]

I feel like the drug war has not been entirely unsuccessful frankly and I’m not at all interested in throwing in the towel. I think we need more cops, more prisons and stiffer mandatory minimum sentences for everything except weed. And I would remind you that one of the arguments for weed legalization was that it wouldn’t be a stepping stone to a push for legalization of hard drugs and yet, here we are, with legalized weed arguing about legalizing hard drugs. I’ll never be for that. I will fully support a police state before I’ll be on board with that BS. I will support police executing drug dealers in the fing streets before I’ll be on board with that.