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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Sam  wrote in news:l4affdF706uU2@mid.individual.net:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   And then you call yourself "pro-life".   
      
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