Decriminalization? How Did That Work for Portland?

[TerryMiller]

Yeah, I know. It's Portland, but the numbers aren't good.

Portland Drug Decriminalization Effort is a Tragedy

"The new law made possession of those substances no more than a Class E violation, the equivalent of a traffic ticket punishable by a maximum $100 fine. But the fine is dismissed when someone who is fined calls a help hotline, Lines for Life, and completes a health assessment. The idea is to connect drug abusers with services and treatment instead of putting them behind bars.

Sixteen months into this first-in-the-nation experiment, the numbers paint a bleak picture. Drug overdose deaths hit an all-time high in 2021 with 1069, a 41% increase from 2020. And very few people are getting into treatment. According to The Lund Report, after one year, just 136 people had entered treatment, less than 1% of those helped by Measure 110. But the actual number may be even lower."

 

[golddigger14s]

Sounds cold, but I call it a good thing. "overdose deaths hit an all-time high in 2021 with 1069, a 41% increase from 2020. "

 

[GnometownHero]

Portland used to be such a beautiful fun city to visit.
Cops write drug tickets but cant touch Antifa.
The junkies dont pay their tickets
There are social welfare support people preventing regular citizens from kicking any druggie butts, you can get a ticket for yelling at junkies, bicycles have right of way, failure to use a proper pronoun can cause a mob attack. Needles, excrement, trash, piling up everywhere.
OD corpses in the Rose Gardens every day.

 

[TedKennedy]

Mother Nature has rules.

I hate for young folks to die young, but this is what needs to happen. Once the first waves of ODs occur, perhaps the ones that follow will be wiser.

 

[SiGArmed]

Mother Nature has rules.

I hate for young folks to die young, but this is what needs to happen. Once the first waves of ODs occur, perhaps the ones that follow will be wiser.

Hasn't seemed to work for alcohol or tobacco.

 

[TedKennedy]

Hasn't seemed to work for alcohol or tobacco.

Oh, I'd say it's worked quite well.

Those that avoid those things do pretty well.

Those that don't, don't.

 

[sklfco]

Sometimes hard knocks are the only way to educate stupid people, simple maff says some won’t survive. Just what is the problem?

 

[Gadsden]

Mother Nature has rules.

I hate for young folks to die young, but this is what needs to happen. Once the first waves of ODs occur, perhaps the ones that follow will be wiser.

Nice thought but I doubt it. Like most young people they are under the mistaken impression that they are indestructible and that they'll live forever. They won't consider the consequences of their actions they'll just assume that only other people OD. Darwinism at work...

 

[SiGArmed]

Oh, I'd say it's worked quite well.

Those that avoid those things do pretty well.

Those that don't, don't.

Ah yes. 95,000 annual deaths and around 14.5 mil alcoholics. Working great.

480,000 deaths a year for smokers.

but weed baaaaaaaaad bc muh pastor said jesus wouldnt approve

 

[Louro]

Portland used to be such a beautiful fun city to visit.
Cops write drug tickets but cant touch Antifa.
The junkies dont pay their tickets
There are social welfare support people preventing regular citizens from kicking any druggie butts, you can get a ticket for yelling at junkies, bicycles have right of way, failure to use a proper pronoun can cause a mob attack. Needles, excrement, trash, piling up everywhere.
OD corpses in the Rose Gardens every day.

This is a liberal paradise. If they get their way every city in the US will be like exactly the same. All in the name of social justice and saving the planet.