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https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-democrats-move-to-undo-part-of-unpopular-drug-decriminalization-law
Oregon Democrats are moving to undo part of the state’s
drug decriminalization law that has plummeted in popularity
since it went into effect.
Democrats on the state legislature’s addiction committee
announced Tuesday that they will introduce a new bill to
bring back misdemeanor criminal penalties for possessing
small amounts of drugs.
In 2020, Oregon voters approved Measure 110, which scrapped
criminal charges for possessing small amounts of any drug,
even hard drugs like fentanyl.
Instead, offenders are hit with a maximum fine of $100
that is rarely enforced.
. . .
Sorry, but Reality intruded rather abruptly.
Endless quantities of strong drugs = endless
quantities of wasted street-shitting dangerous
stabby loons.
Sorry, but it's a human nature thing and all
the hyperlefty ideology in the world won't
change it. Craving pleasurable states has
a useful Darwinian component ; the problem
comes when there's an unlimited supply of
such pleasures in a handy little bottle
or foil wrapper.
Oh, politics too ... the left coast is trying
to (appear to) clean up its act so it can run
the Prime Destructor, Newsom, for prez and
PRETEND everything's cool.
(of course, in truth, they're mostly just
finding ways to move the shitters to the
far outskirts of town, out of sight. the
msm WILL participate in the farce)
Are legal sanctions the answer to street-shitters ?
Well, only to a point. It's not "ideal", but also
bear in mind what CAN be done in the legal/reality
context. No, we are NOT gonna spend 900 billion
on 'rehab' programs that will barely work. That's BS.
100 bil on new shitter gulags in northern NV
nowhereville is more what's going to happen. Also
bear in mind that much stronger, even cheaper,
dope is in the pipeline - the equivs of
tranq+nitrazines+shrooms+who-knows-what-else.
Human excess HAS to be moderated for the "greater
good" - sorry, but we're trying to be Real here.
Otherwise it's Mad Max and then what we get AFTER t
hat craps out. This has nothing to do with anyone's
religions/moralities, it's dead PRACTICAL. X-percent
DO and CONTINUE to fuck up severely - with rather
disproportionate impact on everyone else.
So "WAR on drugs", no ... it's not like that and
shouldn't be like that ... but "police action"/
bad-compromises, no escape.
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