Posted on Sep 1, 2023
Oregonians support ending drug decriminalization amid rising overdoses, 'radicalized social...
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Article Quotes: "Gov. Tina Kotek signed a law in July creating a misdemeanor charge for people who posses between 1 and 5 grams of fentanyl, the deadliest drug in the state. Possession of five to 24 pills was also made a misdemeanor that can carry a year jail sentence"
""I think we didn't realize that what we were signing up for was the deterioration of civilized norms and the public spaces being ceded to people in late-stage drug addiction and engaged in all sorts of criminal activity to keep that addiction going.""
These people got just what they voted for. They listened to lies of the Progressive Left, and now they are paying the price.
""I think we didn't realize that what we were signing up for was the deterioration of civilized norms and the public spaces being ceded to people in late-stage drug addiction and engaged in all sorts of criminal activity to keep that addiction going.""
These people got just what they voted for. They listened to lies of the Progressive Left, and now they are paying the price.
Oregonians support ending drug decriminalization amid rising overdoses, 'radicalized social...
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We will continue to have a drug problem in this country until we stop treating drug addiction as a crime and start treating it as a disease, as we finally learned to do with alcoholism.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
SFC (Join to see) - Just a little FYI:
"There are currently an estimated 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States.[1] The incarceration rate is now more than 4.3 times what it was nearly 50 years ago.[2] This increase has led to the United States having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, 37 percent greater than that of Cuba and 69 percent greater than Russia.[3] This high incarceration rate is not because crime has increased; in fact, crime rates have declined since the 1990s.[4] Rather, the arrest rate—particularly for drug crimes—increased dramatically, while sentences have gotten longer.[5], [6] These policy changes have disproportionately affected low-income and minority populations, who now make up roughly three-fifths and two-thirds of the prison population, respectively"
https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/incarceration-and-poverty-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Of%20the%202.2%20million%20currently%20being%20held%20in,percent%20of%20those%20held%20in%20federal%20facilities.%20
Locking them up does NOT solve the problem! We learned that during Prohibition. It is time to learn that now about drug abuse.
"There are currently an estimated 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States.[1] The incarceration rate is now more than 4.3 times what it was nearly 50 years ago.[2] This increase has led to the United States having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, 37 percent greater than that of Cuba and 69 percent greater than Russia.[3] This high incarceration rate is not because crime has increased; in fact, crime rates have declined since the 1990s.[4] Rather, the arrest rate—particularly for drug crimes—increased dramatically, while sentences have gotten longer.[5], [6] These policy changes have disproportionately affected low-income and minority populations, who now make up roughly three-fifths and two-thirds of the prison population, respectively"
https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/incarceration-and-poverty-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Of%20the%202.2%20million%20currently%20being%20held%20in,percent%20of%20those%20held%20in%20federal%20facilities.%20
Locking them up does NOT solve the problem! We learned that during Prohibition. It is time to learn that now about drug abuse.
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MSG Stan Hutchison - A combination of locking them us and treatment is the solution. Leaving them on the streets to commit more crimes is not the problem. This article shows a prime example of what happens when a society has no rules to live by. Maybe you think that is a good thing, I don't.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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