bermuda4you

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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Totally agree with you - great point! HN is known as the hub for drug addicted homeless people from Portland, OR. I should probably find a different forum since I don't share this experience first hand.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Strong reasoning style! It makes sense.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
> The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap. You keep misrepresenting the situation by dramatizing it. People sleep on the streets of San Francisco (one of the most exp
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
I have no personal experience with decriminalization in Oregon. What's your point?
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Oh I am sorry, I forgot that we spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars on providing safe spaces for smoking cigarettes, free smoking paraphernalia, treating smoking overdoses in public spaces. Great analogy!
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
I acknowledge that treatment works and decriminalization of (highly addictive hard) drugs does not. I don't necessarily advocate for treatment because we already spend too much money on this problem.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
When was this document written? Today Portugal has nearly the same level of drug-addiction problems as they had in the early 2000s when they legalized all drugs. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
I am not necessarily arguing for treatment. Drug addiction is a very serious chronic disease, so treatment would be a better choice than enablement. However, I do agree that success rate of treatment must be pretty low.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Letting people have full agency in their choices - sure. But not the big government part.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Oregon already has a large number of safe injection sites, support groups, rehabs, soup kitchens, etc. Like the failed homelessness industrial complex - it's never enough, we just need to spend a few more billions, and then just a few
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Treatment works. Partial enforcement and pandering don't work.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Ah, the "progressive" argument. Let people rot to death, it's the compassionate way.
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
How do you explain the failed drug decriminalization in Oregon?
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by bermuda4you 2y ago
Legalization of hard drugs doesn't work long term. If you provide all resources to people to enjoy opiates - they will have no incentive to quit. Why is this utopian view so persistent?