XPost: alt.society.liberalism, or.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
XPost: talk.politics.misc
From: Mikey.Smith@aol.com
On 2024-02-29, Sam wrote:
> 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 legislatorsÂ’ 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.
>
My family spent $10k trying to rehab a family member. Despite all the money
spent the day after he was released he had of a Fentynal overdose.
It is sad, but there is no salvation for opiate addicts. Only about 97%
of them that go to treatment relapse back into the drug within 30 days.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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