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Posted on 02/28/2024 6:27:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon lawmakers on a joint committee on Tuesday voted to move a bill that would make possession of drugs a crime again to the House for a vote.
The bill would effectively change voter-approved Measure 110.
The bill has an emergency clause, which means if it makes it through both houses of the Legislature and the governor signs it, it becomes law immediately. But the new criminal charge for drug possession would take effect Sept. 1, giving the Department of Justice a chance to implement it.
If it becomes law, people openly using illegal drugs on Oregon’s streets could face arrest and potentially some jail time.
Democrats say they trust that most counties will choose to offer treatment counseling instead of charges.
But racial justice advocates and criminal lawyers are skeptical about giving police and district attorneys that much freedom. Both say people of color will be disproportionally impacted.
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LOL, recriminalize it all you want, but will your liberal DA’s actually prosecute? No, no they won’t.
It looks as if the WhOregonians are finally realizing that drugs fuel the degradation of society.
George Floyd found out what the ultimate penalty for recreational drug use is.
but you have no Police to enforce it
“No, no they won’t.”
A couple of times in my career I was in failing companies where the leadership tried to implement a plan to save the company. There are people way down in the hierarchy who sabotage the plans even though it is not in their interest to do so. I suspect it’s to demonstrate their power. When I asked one guy why he was doing the sabotage he said, “Well, f@ch ‘em” So, no rational reason, just to prove they can’t do without him. It’s like keying someone’s car but not being there when they return to see the damage.
Overturning the wishes of the voters!! /our democracy
Oh, we have police...yesterday saw 21 speed by us with lights on...heading East on I84. 60 miles later a bunch (@12) more sped by. ONLY news report we have seen is someone barricaded themself in a building in Hermiston.
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Our HIGH tax dollars at work. Rinse and repeat.
Its about time, people are dying like flies from drug abuse in Oregon.
barn door closing?.....horses long gone
Back in say the 80’s or so, if someone so much as had residue fro say coke, they faced really hard sentences- and folks shied away from harder drugs like that mostly (the smart ones anyways)
Lately, watching cop shows, you see a woman or man empty put their po keys, drop packets of meth, Crack etc, and the cop will be like “oh its no big deal... work with us here, and we will go light on you. We don’t want to see upu ruin your life over such a small. Amount of drugs”
A wors, they will get a few months in prison, but many will get sent to counseling instead, and maybe get probation and “time served” or whatever
Things seem to have really changed these days. I guess because prisons and jails are over-run, and certain crimes they go softer on so,as not to clogg up the courts more. But it has led to a massive increase and more dealing because the fines and threat of lengthy prison sentences just isn’t there anymore.
But let a Jan 6 patriot raise their voice on Capitol grounds, and by golly they get slammed with 10-20 years in prison in some cases, and have to remain in prison for years awaiting their trials- drug addicts are out He very day they are arrested, and face nothing more really in some cases than a xlap,on the wrist
Because “lawmakers” know what’s best eh?
Oregon - the yo-yo 🪀 state
Too late for Portland etc. The state is trashed.
The moral relativism idea failed? How can this be?
Public drug use is a 6th degree misdemeanor, somewhere about like spitting on the sidewalk. Drug use in private is still not a crime.
If we want to do something to advance public health, we need to look at the example of Singapore. When Singapore achieved independence in 1965 about 1/3 of their residents were drug addicts. They enacted strict laws. If you fly into their airport today, signs warn visitors that possession of less than 15 grams of drugs means serious prison time, 15 grams or more results in hanging.
A few years ago I read that now 1/3 of their residents are millionaires.
This is how you get control of a serious drug problem.
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