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Public use and illicit sale is still illegal even if possession is decriminalized. It's unclear what this recriminalization accomplishes from a legal standpoint
by uoaei 3y ago
Public use and illicit sale is still illegal even if possession is decriminalized. It's unclear what this recriminalization accomplishes from a legal standpoint to address the primary concerns of the public. Appears to be little more than a shallow political play.
- chrchr 3y agoThe Oregon decriminalization experiment had several really puzzling elements. One of them is that isn't clear that public use was illegal, at least not in a way that police could actually enforce. In a fun example of "the exception proves the rule", a few weeks ago the state leg. passed a law criminalizing drug use on public transit. Decriminalization was really badly implemented in Oregon. Part of it was the pandemic. Part of it was the confluence with the fentanyl surge. Part of it was that our public agencies just didn't seem to know how to coordinate with one another on the issues that arose. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/bill-using-drugs-public-transit-passes-oregon-legislature/283-07d60257-42e4-4a28-bfe1-9de94bf8730e https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/bill-using-drugs-p...