Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

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doing whatever you want, isn't best for society

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Canada around Vancouver has a lot of those. Though I would hate to ruin the nature up there.

Tried and failed. Oregon took one for the team.

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but so it turns out, doing whatever you want, isn't best for society.

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Of course. We all need some sort of restrictions. Look at the US population and food whenever we eat whatever we want. 2/3 of population is obese and puts a strain on the health care system. Of course some OTer will bring up that this is not right and we need freedom to whatever we want. People in general have discipline of a 5 year old and imagine giving them magic buttons 24/7 . Yes, you need some freedom but you have to throw in some restrictions too make a functioning society.

Good

Seems like they fell into the bureaucratic red tape when trying to distribute funds for treatment facilities and the like.

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"Oregon took a long time to kind of figure out how to go about giving out that money," Ovalle said. "So, there was a lot of delays and actually getting the money out the door. In the meantime, a lot of the use of fentanyl was skyrocketing on the West Coast."

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That’s unfortunate. Utilizing their THC sales to create more facilities for treatment of a range of substances should be a given even re-criminalizing harder stuff.

Also unfortunate that we lose an opportunity to utilize Psilocybin for wider spread research if recriminalized. They were making good headway there.

What about for tPots

If only we'd seen this coming.

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the fact that hardcore libertarians/"legalize everything" types still exist after the past 5 or so years is hilarious

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The question always turns to why America is an outlier with respect to having such a large pathological cohort within its total population.

This applies to basically all areas of life.

The scary part is that it's likely that socialism (not conservativism) is why these countries are able to implement these policies. It raises a lot of questions as to how we deal with all of this moving forward (note: I'm not implying we need to promote socialism, for the smoothbrains).

So is the goal to stop people from using illegal drugs? Because that's not going to happen.

Honestly, I think drugs like heroin, cocaine, and several others should be sold legally. Since people are going to do it no matter what, at least let sell them a product they know what they are getting.

I am just curious if privatized prisons have any part of this. They want as many prisoners as possible, that's how they make money. Im just thinking.. because its politics.. Things are usually done because someone is gaining from it.