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.
I think there’s a difference between the users and the sellers.
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.
“criminalization is a way to get junkies into forced treatment”
The clowns in Salem sold this as a way to force the drug addicts to go to rehab. They would still get a fine but they were given a choice to pay the fine (like they’re going to come up with the $25 fine) OR, they can call a drug rehab line and get their charges thrown out. Guess how much they enforced that? NOT at all. Go downtown (unfortunately I have to go their on occasion driving through to visit family at the coast) and you’ll see scores of cops on bikes and just walking around as junkies are doing any amount of drugs, defecating on the streets, and sleeping on the sidewalk.
BUT Antifa has run Portland since the 1990s when the commies started up their “Rose City Antifa” crew. This is what they want.