Posted on 02/21/2024 12:20:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's a common sight on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon: people in front of stores, trendy restaurants and hotels, on sidewalks, corners, and benches, crouched over torch lighters held up to sheets of tinfoil or meth pipes.
Some drape blankets over their heads, or duck behind concrete barriers. Others don’t try to hide. "All summer long, we were right out in the open. You didn't have to be paranoid anymore, you didn't have to be worried about the cops," said John Hood, a 61-year-old drug addict living on the streets of Oregon’s most populous city.
Hood spoke to Reuters on a downtown Portland corner, across from where he had just smoked fentanyl and methamphetamine outside an old bus station-turned homeless shelter.
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Gonna try and put the horse back in the barn?
That’s what we call the “ Laboratories of democracy” . Obviously it didn’t work out as voters expected but it was a nice experiment, hopefully other states learn the lesson
In before legalizing all drugs stop abuse.
My company deals with several sawmills in OR. It is bad enough when you have to randomly test your employees for marijuana.
Imagine having a sawmill employee come into the mill after shooting heroine or snorting coke.
It’s sort of like build a ball field and they will come.
Decriminalized drugs and they will come. So the local populace might be completely negligent of their health and well-being but a lot of people showed up because they could. Sort of the same thing happened to Denver when Colorotflmao legalized MJ. Now they have Stoners on everything.
What these dummies don’t understand is that criminalization is a way to get junkies into forced treatment. I don’t think anyone - liberal or conservative - wants to just put junkies in jail and house them for years. Nor is a short sentence - 90 days, 6 months - effective. What is effective is forced rehab followed by drug court and successive penalties if they fail to comply. Decriminalization makes the process voluntary, and no junkie is going to go through the process voluntarily.
What?
Is that legal? In CA you can’t test employees for cannabis. I’m not sure about other drugs.
I think there’s a difference between the users and the sellers.
Some of those big sawmills use equipment that can be dangerous, even when not stoned or high, yes?
There is no effective cure or rehab for opioid addiction. True on occasion some are able to “stay clean” for some time. However the vast majority lead degraded drugged lives and statistically die far younger than aged matched non users in the population. These drugs alter brain chemistry and things don’t return to “normal” even during periods of “sobriety”. Sad when a teen starts down this road after receiving pain meds after an accident or dental surgery .
Yep.
The usual results of libtardism run amok. Complete catastrophe
I agree that it's difficult for them, when not impossible. The user has to really want to quit, treatment has to be available, and a change of, ahem, associates is a good thing. When I read of Hollywood show people or musicians going clean, I'm skeptical.
These drugs alter brain chemistry and things don’t return to “normal” even during periods of “sobriety”. Sad when a teen starts down this road after receiving pain meds after an accident or dental surgery .
Or when their "friends" talk them in trying. Peer pressure is a major force in our younger citizens.
It ain’t your Daddy’s heroin and coke.
Fentanyl and Meth are MUCH stronger!
A BIG difference!
Indeed.
Old: Turn on, tune in, drop out-— Dr.Timothy Leary
New: Do some drugs, commit some crimes, lie around, repeat tomorrow.
What about Ozempic? It seems to stop any kind of addiction.
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