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I think presenting voters with "decriminalize drug use" was a deceptive play to start with. Most voters picture themselves smoking weed on the weekend or doing
by mike_d 3y ago
I think presenting voters with "decriminalize drug use" was a deceptive play to start with. Most voters picture themselves smoking weed on the weekend or doing mushrooms at Coachella, not the people unescapably trapped by drugs.
Habitual drug addicts don't have personal responsibility, family support, or a community of non-drug addicts to depend on. Forced incarceration in a treatment program is literally their only chance at breaking the cycle long enough to get them support for the underlying issues that led to addiction.
- enragedcacti 3y ago> Habitual drug addicts don't have personal responsibility, family support, or a community of non-drug addicts to depend on. survivorship_bias_plane.png There are millions of habitual hard drug users that do have some personal responsibility, some family support, some sober people around them encouraging them. They are holding down jobs and paying for their own housing, they've already quit multiple times but have gotten pulled back in. For those people forced incarceration could maybe solve their addiction at the cost of their housing and their job.
- lazide 3y agoThe forced incarceration is more about trying to tactically solve the specific pain point (people doing drugs on a doorstep), not solving the bigger problem. Which even trying to agree on what the bigger problem is, near as I can tell, is impossible.
- bb88 3y agoI don't think anyone in Portland was being deceived. They have had a huge issue with homelessness and drug addicts for the better part of the last decade. Tents are everywhere. On the side streets, on the interstate right of ways. It's been that way for a decade.