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Posted on 01/24/2024 12:05:45 PM PST by knighthawk
Since the OR drug problem has been a REAL problem since the ‘90s, you would have thought it was obvious.
...and, once again, Americans are having to suffer through the LEARNING CURVE of Democrats.
Well, who saw this coming? LOL
Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder saw it in the dark with their eyes closed.
But now they have so many more addicts. Lots of luck !!!
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One of the results of the “liberalization” of the drug laws was a change in demography - build a drug haven and they will come, and they have. That means that whatever services the community had while these drugs were still illegal were quickly overwhelmed and will no longer be adequate in the changed environment. There is no incentive for the government to solve any of the problems; in fact, more problems means higher taxes, more power, more activists, more government. It’s one of those little civil death spirals that’s going to be difficult to break in the face of people who benefit from it.
“These people decriminalized drugs without fully understanding that drugs were criminalized for a reason.”
That isn’t a correct characterization. Everyone knows drugs were criminalized for a reason.
The correct view is that those who advocated decriminalization wanted chaos in society — same as defunding the police — same as Soros DAs — same as shoplifting under $950 defelonized.
If anyone actually bothers to read the article all they are proposing is making possession a low-level misdemeanor — sort of along the lines of a traffic ticket, although I suspect the acutal enforcement will be more like parking tickets.
More liberal idiocy.
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