If for no other reason, Captain Obvious exists so that we can have a person in charge of making fun of the idiots on the left. After all, it takes marshmallow-major stupidity to think that legalizing drugs would improve anything...except drug availability.
State leaders have acknowledged faults with the policy’s implementation.
It’s not the implementation of it it’s the stupidity of even thinking about doing it.
Shocking. I mean, the fact that they had to experiment with people’s lives to figure it out. Inexcusable idiocy.
“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.”
This is what they want. This is what was intended.
When rulers despise much of the population of their country, they behave like demons and try to corrupt, degrade and destroy them.
I’ve read that Portugalhas the solution. Drugs aren’t illegal but they’ll do nothing for you if you’re sick or overdosed. Maybe pick up the body and cremate it because it’s a health hazard.
Any time liberals talk about “a more compassionate and nuanced response,” you know you’re in for about ten miles of bad road.
Whenever I start a conversation about this madness I get a leftist telling me how great Amsterdam is with legalizing everything.
Not sure there’s a comparison.
Previously, they voted to legalize marijuana which caused the decivilization and collapse of many small communities.
Now they can kill the ordinary citizens off faster.
“What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs”
Portland happened.
Well, if they got all booster shots, then no problemo.
Uh oh. The FreeRepublic Drug Brigade will be here soon to refute this. Led by the FR Pot Regiment, of course.
Unless there is something to take the place of criminal penalties when the drug usage becomes a public policy problem you are just going to have a growth in addiction.
But when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets and in front of a judge their hands are tied. I also seriously doubt most local governments have the budget to provide facilities for addicts.
The result is a lot of piss in the streets.
There was a recent Oregon article about adding to the needle exchange program. Oregon is distributing ‘fentanyl kits.’ Materials that will assist with fentanyl use, materials that are ‘healthier and safer.’
Re: Make cigarettes illegal. Rush talks about this all the time. If cigarettes were really as bad as they say, why are they allowed to sell them? As usual, the answer is $$$$$. There are State and Federal health programs that are funded by cigarette tax. The smoking public are funding health services; especially health services ‘for the children.’
Another obvious unanticipated consequence was to draw the dregs of the low life from around the country to Portlandia to further enrich their society.
Uhhhh…peace and prosperity filled the land?
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?
It makes me smile knowing the voters are getting what they voted for.
The democrats get even more votes
Well duh. You have to be insane to not see this coming