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   From: samt@samt.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:59:21 -0500, "61h.1601" <61h.1602@e3t2w.net> wrote:   
      
   >On 2/28/24 7:10 AM, Surrender! wrote:   
   >> Tonight, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt testified in   
   >> favor of Oregon legislators’ latest proposal to recriminalize hard drugs,   
   >> ending a lengthy public silence on whether he supports rolling back the   
   >> heart of the 2020 ballot measure that made Oregon the first state in the   
   >> country to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of heroin, meth   
   >> and fentanyl.   
   >   
   >   How quickly they turn ....   :-)   
   >   
   >   Look, there's no perfect - or even halfway perfect - fix   
   >   for the 'drug problem'. Criminalization = Big Crime,   
   >   legalization = Social Dissolution. It's a human nature   
   >   thing, people just LOVE their drugs and will get 'em   
   >   and take 'em no matter what even if it kills them. It's   
   >   how the species is hardwired.   
   >   
   >   So, what ya gonna do ?   
   >   
   >   Throw all the dopeheads/dealers in jail for 50 years and   
   >   you'll run out of jail space real quick - and $$$ to run   
   >   any such system even if you turn some big island into   
   >   a gulag. Oh, and up the stakes too much and the crime   
   >   gets more and more violent. On the flip, go TOO easy   
   >   on 'em and it will be a situation similar to the west   
   >   coast BlueVilles streets - a "no worries, gimme a   
   >   bag of ..." attitude.   
   >   
   >   Not every human issue has a good solution. We just have   
   >   to kinda kludge our way through it.   
      
      
    Oh the best policy with drug abusers is to give them enough Fentanyl to   
   do them selves in. Back when China had millions of opioid addicts Mao just   
   had his police shoot them in the back of their head. Everybody gotta die   
   sometime and it would be much cheaper then putting them up in a steel bar   
   hotel.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)