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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 …

Strong reasoning style! It makes sense.

> 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 …

I have no personal experience with decriminalization in Oregon. What's your point?

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…

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 mon…

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.…

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 succes…

Letting people have full agency in their choices - sure. But not the big government part.

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 …

Treatment works. Partial enforcement and pandering don't work.

Ah, the "progressive" argument. Let people rot to death, it's the compassionate way.

How do you explain the failed drug decriminalization in Oregon?

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 persis…