Posted on 04/05/2024 5:50:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
It didn’t take long for Oregon to realize decriminalizing hard drugs was a bad idea.
On Tuesday, Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, signed legislation that recriminalizes drug possession, reversing Measure 110, which 58 percent of voters approved in 2020. By August, however, 56 percent of Oregonians disapproved after a major uptick in overdose deaths and addiction in the state. Lawmakers from both parties got to work drafting legislation to reverse the measure.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
enforcement? punishment? This measure is smoke and mirrors!
Yup.
*leftists do not learn from failure and want to keep pushing the same failed ideas.*
True but it made me laugh as we got the same problem only worse.
How many lives ruined in the experiment?
Thousands at least. Probably tens of thousands. There are far too many to count.
The drug addicts would either die out, or they would get tired of life in the gutter and be motivated to get off the drugs. Meanwhile, future potential drug addicts would look at them and have a higher chance of never trying drugs.
I don't know if that would work with today's drugs being more addictive than drugs from before the welfare state. But there's no chance of decriminalizing drugs working today as long as our welfare state removes some of the natural consequences of being an addict.
There would have been many more deaths if the police and EMTs didn’t carry Narcan. It would be heartless to say they shouldn’t, but if they didn’t, the problem would sort itself out quickly because I’ll bet that they provide emergency treatment for the same druggies time after time.
Well said. As long as there is someone to rescue them, they will not change their behavior.
Way too late, Oregon.
All the toothpaste is out of that nasty tube.
Just throw @#$T against the wall and see if it sticks. Fools.....children.
A government on DRUGS Decriminalizing Hard Drugs in the first place
> I’ve learned is that leftists do not learn from failure… <
And that’s because every leftist believes “This time it will be different.”
Of course they can’t explain how it will be different. Because it won’t be.
It’s the room temperature IQ people who actually think that decriminalizing something that is addictive will make crime go down.
To be perfectly honest, I bought this argument when I was younger, so obviously I’m no genius. derp.
The idea is that you take the profit incentive away from organized crime. The problem is, the state has to take control, and what does that mean? The state competes with street dealers, and they still need law enforcement in order to try to protect their monopoly.
If you don’t have ‘dispensaries’ on every corner, then junkies will go to the most convenient local source. If you do have them on every corner, then you have junkies standing around on every corner lighting up (or cooking, or snorting, etc), and people in stupor on the sidewalk. Either way, you have people desperate for their next fix without a source income, and that’s a bad combination when you also have a no-cash-bail and a minimum larceny threshold.
Enabling doesn’t work.
It’s just human nature common sense.
Anyone who would do that has not only a brain of mush but morals to match it.
The benevolent, intelligent, and wise people of the world are sick and tired of the intellectually and morally confused and their influences. Such people and their defective cognizance should not be taken seriously or have any serious influence.
With a stroke of the pen, the addiction goes away?
Negative. Fake news.
They did NOT restore criminal penalties.
The article suggests some sanity has come to Oregon demoncrats; this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
still a practicing dyke like her predecessor
wtf OR?!!
Likely they will simply stop enforcing the law or selectively do so
Didn’t they learn from the failed experiment in Amsterdam?
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