re: Oregon passes bill to recriminalize drug possession

The war on poverty is much much much worse.

The whole GD “war on drugs” was total bullshite, if there was ever a war on drugs (which I am not sure really existed since the CIA was in charge of the Mexican cartels and working with them in 80s to fund the contras, ((google it about 12 books and 3 or 4 movies on it) then we completely got destroyed and drugs won.

The war on weed never made a bit of sense to begin with. It was like prohibition 80/90s style.

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Most addicts are a detriment to our society by their own choice

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I agree that addicts are a detriment to society.

Addicts chose to abuse drugs and/or alcohol and could choose to pursue treatment, but have yet to do so.

Addiction however is a disease and can be shown to be so scientifically using imaging and other objective measures.

All three statements can be true at the same time.

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I would argue that our current policy of drug prohibition is in large part responsible for much of the generational poverty we are still seeing.

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I’d argue it’s a byproduct of raising children in broken/non-nuclear families.

Two parent households statistically are far and away the greatest predictor of positive/negative outcomes for children and drug use.

Black two parent families for example have better outcomes than white two parent families, there are just proportionally far more single parent black homes than white ones.

Prior to LBJ signing the great society legislation blacks were between 70-80% two parent households. Since that was passed all races have seen a steady decline in outcomes.

Any objective statistician would point to that legislation as the inflection point for the US.

In other words if we want to fix drug abuse and poor child outcomes we need to identify exactly what part of the Great Society legislation triggered the decline and remove it or just eliminate the whole thing all together.

Has anyone seen the videos of the drugs in the streets from the cities that do this?

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ranked 50th for access to treatment

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Well no shite it failed then. That's one thing I can say about Louisiana, we may be last in damned near everything but this state has great recovery and access to it. Whether treatment facilities or sober housing and thriving recovery communities, it's one of the things Louisiana actually does well.

So shocked that didn’t work out as intended

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Louisiana has more people on government assistance than nearly any other state.

You can spin it any way you want; it's a mess.

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Ok? Doesn't change the fact that the state does recovery right

meth is illegal. krispy kreams are not illegal.

so the two aren't really alike.

I don't know, tbh, but it b speaks to the weakness of our populace.