re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

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This is the classic chicken or the egg argument.

If they weren’t on hard drugs, would some of the other crimes not be prevented also? They are committing crimes to buy more drugs?

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If only we had a historical textbook case (alcohol) to use as an example.

Cities were plagued by violence in the prohibition days.

Now, alcohol certainly causes problems, but no one is robbing or killing over alcohol. It’s legal and cheap.