So here's a reporter interviewing residents to see how it's working out. Here's the same type of interviews in San Francisco.
There’s not an easy answer on where the line should be drawn but I support the government having those laws.
Let adults make that decision for themselves. Tax it. And make resources available for those who want to stop using and treat their addiction.
idiotic "logic". People with a pulse know there is no good drug policy, only trying to find the least bad. What state do you live in & how have their policies fared????? Do they claim their polices as solutions??? by your "logic" they must
Why are you so angry? I didn’t personally attack you or even reply to you. Take a deep breath and relax. If I did live near there with my family my one and only goal would be getting them out of that cesspool. Maybe you wouldn’t and that’s your choice but that is no way to “solve” the problem.
I am angry cuz I am tired of you radical commie BIG GOV types shoving your hamfisted BIG GOV BS down my freedom loving throat. Why do hate freedom, cuz it ain't free?
Wow, in a whole sentence, you only got the definite article right. If you think I am tolerant OR left, you must be new around here, MR. PROHIBITION.
Well I don’t live on this forum like you I guess. I check in and respond occasionally. I made one assumption and you’ve made about 20 in this thread. We are even I guess.
I love the people who say our government should decriminalize drugs that killed over 100,000 Americans in 2021. And in the same breath, the same people criticize the same government for not doing enough to stop the problem. Giving people easier access to deadly drugs doesn’t seem like much of a solution but if that’s what the people in Portland and San Francisco want, let them deal with the consequences.
When it matters - drug policy in this case - your assumptions regarding what is & what is not better policy, seems unmotivated; further, your seem to place next to no value on freedom in this case.
Freedom to overdose on the sidewalk? Freedom to increase crime and homelessness? If that’s the kind of freedom you are talking about then yeah I don’t value it at all.
1. I don't see the contradiction or inconsistency in this statement that you seem to imply:" I love the people who say our government should decriminalize drugs that killed over 100,000 Americans in 2021. And in the same breath, the same people criticize the same government for not doing enough to stop the problem." As to your second pt, can't we decriminalize AND make access harder (not that I am advocating that for most drugs)?? Those goals don't seem orthogonal.
