re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

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If they weren’t on hard drugs, would some of the other crimes not be prevented also?

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That's not what he's talking about.

If these areas remain lax on their vagrancy, trespassing, theft, etc. laws, they're going to have the same problem with the homeless hoarde swarming in and disrupting society daily (including crime), even if they re-criminalize drugs.

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Realistically a better enforcement of all of them would be preferred.

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Because we have learned that works so well? Especially if your goal is decreasing drug use.

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but the fact is a high percentage of hard drug users will turn into addicts and dregs on society.

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The question is how to decrease this population.

Drug addiction is almost always a function of variables having nothing to do with drugs, like trauma (typically from physical or sexual abuse history), economic factors, etc.