Posted on 07/19/2023 3:05:27 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Three years ago, while the nation’s attention was on the 2020 presidential election, voters in Oregon took a dramatic step back from America’s long-running War on Drugs. By a 17-point margin, Oregonians approved Ballot Measure 110, which eliminated criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of any drug, including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. When the policy went into effect early the next year, it lifted the fear of prosecution for the state’s drug users and launched Oregon on an experiment to determine whether a long-sought goal of the drug-policy reform movement—decriminalization—could help solve America’s drug problems.
Early results of this reform effort, the first of its kind in any state, are now coming into view, and so far, they are not encouraging. State leaders have acknowledged faults with the policy’s implementation and enforcement measures. And Oregon’s drug problems have not improved. Last year, the state experienced one of the sharpest rises in overdose deaths in the nation and had one of the highest percentages of adults with a substance-use disorder. During one two-week period last month, three children under the age of 4 overdosed in Portland after ingesting fentanyl.
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dopes on parade what did they think would happen
Another obvious unanticipated consequence was to draw the dregs of the low life from around the country to Portlandia to further enrich their society.
That would work for me. Plus throw all the ashes into an unmarked hole that no one knows the location.
Uhhhh…peace and prosperity filled the land?
Thanks. That helps with some clarity.
Wellll......
Since overdose deaths are rising, it would appear that the problem is beginning to self correct
“when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets”
If states can clear the way for abortion clinics, other business entities should be entitled to Amendment XIV equal protection of the law.
“12 of the states and the District of Columbia prohibit blocking the entrance to and egress from clinic facilities.”
“8-ft. zone within 100 ft. of door”
“25 feet if ordered by police”
“Noise, Trespassing”
“Noise, Odor”
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/protecting-access-clinics
Without reading the article, let me use my powers of divination.
1. Hard drug use went way up.
2. Overdoses went way up.
3. Crime went way up.
4. Homelessness went way up.
5. General quality of life for normal people went down.
How’d I do?
There are two Oregons. The corridor from Eugene to Portland, and the rest of the state. Beginning in the nineteen sixties Californians who couldn’t get their kids into a good school there sent them to Oregon where tuition was cheap and schools were less demanding. The kids graduated in education, or sociology, or tree-hugging. They did not return to California. Rather they settled in Oregon. Of limited intelligence, drug users, life-haters, they birthed children of even less intelligence. And they too attended the mediocre colleges sprinkled throughout the state. If ever there existed a moronic population for observation it would have to be Oregon. You just can’t imagine how miserable the place is unless you visit Portland. Or Eugene. Or Salem. If you are sane, you would not want to live there.
“when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets”
How about creating a federal offense of obstructing the operation of a commercial business district?
“Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002”
“The crime is codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The relevant subsection reads:
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
“The term “official proceeding” is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1515(a)(1) to include proceedings before federal judges, Congress, federal government agencies, and regulators of insurance businesses”
“The majority opinion, written by Judge Florence Pan, stated that a ruling on the meaning of “corrupt intent” should wait for another appropriate case to reach the court, but a concurring opinion by Judge Justin Walker explicitly adopted a narrower definition that “a defendant must intend to obtain a benefit that he knows is unlawful”.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructing_an_official_proceeding
Singapore got a handle on this by executing drug dealers. My policy is that if you get caught dealing fentanyl, you get the firing squad. No buts.
It makes me smile knowing the voters are getting what they voted for.
Some of these people want Oregon to look like Vancover. Check out the Vancover experiment on YouTube, legalizing drugs is okay. /s
Since overdose deaths are rising, it would appear that the problem is beginning to self correct
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Exactly. Overdoses are up 61%.
When junkies die, the need for cops, courts, rehab facilities, etc, to address the problem become obsolete.
The democrats get even more votes
Initiative petition. Direct democracy. Same way we got draconian gun control.
Portugal’s policy is mentioned in the article. It’s nothing like this. Drug users get treatment, no other options. At least that’s how I understood it.
I like it.
I would think so.
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