re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

This was discussed heavily about a month ago, so I’ll just c/p my reply from that thread:

Oregon went about drug policy arse backwards. Decriminalization doesn’t accomplish a fricking thing when it comes to making drugs safer or in reducing drug trafficking related violence. If after the failed experiment of alcohol prohibition we had simply decriminalized alcohol possession, it would have been the same abject disaster that this was. Legalize it and regulate it, but in the same way that everything else is regulated. If you tax and regulate it into oblivion, the black market will continue to exist, and that’s the core problem.