re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

Yea, it’s like bizarro world. People are prisoners to their prejudices.

They also can’t differentiate between “legalize” and “decriminalize” which are completely different. Decriminalization is worse than both prohibition and legalization. You get all the bad, with none of the good.

In my opinion, there are only two ways to “solve” the drug problem.

1. Full on authoritarian laws against drugs, with death penalty/life sentences for dealers and mandatory prison sentences for users. This would require many new prisons and an appetite for locking millions of people up.

2. Full on legalization, with strict regulation and taxation, with much of the proceeds dedicated to rehab facilities.

But we will be stuck with half-measures of prohibition, with lax enforcement- which is worse than both and almost as bad as decriminalization.