Posted on 11/01/2020 7:02:56 PM PST by dynachrome
In what would be a first in the U.S., possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other hard drugs could be decriminalized in Oregon under a ballot measure that voters are deciding on in Tuesday’s election.
Instead of being arrested, going to trial and facing possible jail time, the users would have the option of paying $100 fines or attending new, free addiction recovery centers.
The centers would be funded by tax revenue from retail marijuana sales in the state that was the country's first to decriminalize marijuana possession.
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Oregon, the next Venezuela.
They’ve certainly lent the distinct impression of decriminalizing hard rioting and hard vandalism!
This is great news. It gets all the junkies to move to Oregon. The other 56 states will be druggie-free!
Who is the victim of drug use?
I would give my state’s drug addicts 1-way tickets to Portland.
Oregon has had a serious drug problem for decades.
Making them even more available is going to destroy the state
There’s that magic four-letter f-bomb again.
No less free than a stretch in jail.
Gateway to the grave.
The most honest reporting on 60 Min was when they visited Amsterdam 10 years apart.
Everyone of the Heroin users they interviewed were all dead after 10 years.
It shocked even 60 Min.
Worth noting from the article:
“Portugal’s 2000 decriminalization brought no surge in drug use. Drug deaths fell while the number of people treated for drug addiction in the country rose 20% from 2001 to 2008 and then stabilized”
Never mentions Soros, who is the source of all this.
#15. Heroin is a “gateway” drug, for U.S. money to go to its Red Chinese producers, shippers, transporters in the US and from US drug dealers they sell it to.
Now, selling heroin/cocaine etc. is by itself a major felony, I don’t know if “buying” as a “user” is a felony or anything illegal. When someone buys it, then it becomes theirs and the crime is “possession”.
It would be interesting to know if there is a law for this intermediary step in the drug trafficking chain re buying this stuff.
My position would be that anyone with small amounts of felony drugs in their possession for personal use, should be given only two choices - go into a treatment plan/center or go to jail and go “cold turkey”.
We’ve got to save those lives of low-level users and try our best to return them as productive citizens to society. Some we will not be able to save. That’s why dealers can and should where possible, be charged with selling drugs that lead to a death as a major “felony”, i.e. “accessory before the fact (death)”, i.e. “voluntary manslaughter”, 10 years, no parole..
Many.
On pure libertarian theoretical grounds I get it - I'm not new to the argument, but it doesn't work practically, in the real world. An we live in a real, not theoretical world.
It's a little like 'Marxism is great on paper.'
But if you want to carve out a little town and wall it off, hey, go for it. If you COULD keep it yourself, which you can't, I'd say hey, go for it.
Why not? Everything in Oregon is running perfectly.
All that means is that state and local cops won’t arrest you.The possession of even microscopic quantities of certain drugs...including marijuana,cocaine (in all its forms),morphine (in all its forms),meth,speed...is still a Federal offense.Everywhere.All 50 states.
Many.
Such as? Any class of persons not also victims of the use of the drug alcohol?
Should we criminalize heroin or Narcan? It seems like the problem would be self healing if we . . . . just let them lie down and take it easy.
It was never the responsibility of the federal government in the first place.
Who is the victim of drug use?
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