re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

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None. That’s the point. When alcohol was illegal, during prohibition, there was a massive uptick in violence and crime. People still drank, but the black market enriched organized crime. Now it’s legal, cheap and regulated.

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It blows my mind that people can’t wrap their heads around this. I’ve had conversations with people in which they admit that there was little to no violent crime involving the making and distribution of alcohol before prohibition, there was a massive increase in violent crime involving the making and distribution of alcohol during prohibition, and then once prohibition ended and up to the present day, there is little to no violent crime involving the making and distribution of alcohol.

And then as soon as I say ok, so there’s currently tons of violent crime involving the making and distribution of illegal narcotics, and if we ended narcotics prohibition, that violent crime would evaporate just like when we ended alcohol prohibition, it’s like their brains snap shut and refuse to entertain any thought outside of “narcotics = violent crime”. I’ll never understand it.