I Investigated the Country that Legalized All Drugs... 

Decriminalization didn't work in america because in american culture, black rappers and celebrities openly attest to how smoking and doing drugs will make you cool so when it becomes legal everyone wanna be cool. Your privileged @ss can vicitmize yourself as much as you want and blame healthcare but you can't pretend that your healthcare and social programs are the worst and countries that have it worse don't have zombie towns.

China chips the drugs here specifically as an act of war

True statement.

Yes, this. Also imo I’ve felt that it was a terrible decision to turn healthcare into a for-profit business model. Once our neighborhood doctors office’s turned into a business it changed everything. The general health of a society should not have a dollar sign attached to it.

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Or...follow me for just a moment...their countries don't border a 3rd world shit hole like mexico who is run by the drug cartels

This sums it up. Vancouver just ended their decriminalized drug pilot program early because it was chaos to the city. These things dont happen overnight

Also it has a lot to do with the culture . Portuguese people are very family oriented and mostly into Christianity so that helps.

​@@cindybarrettoChristianity has nothing to do with it

Yes to your whole comment. Trauma is the underline root of most, if not all mental health and addiction. Its generational trauma as well. When a person gets treated for addiction, mental heal, and trauma at the same time they absolutely have a better chance of recovering. Even more of a chance of not relapsing when they find a program of recovery to help them on a daily. Treatment eventually ends, recovery is ongoing.

So much respect for him, for real. God bless him

i went to new orleans back in the mid-90s. i was surprised at the number of homeless people i saw and how many were young kids. some only looked 10 or 12 years old, i hope that they have solved these issues. new orleans was a real experience. almost like visiting a foreign country, only no passport needed.

2014 I watched a young girl - 14-16 od and die on the trimet heading east towards Gresham … we tried to help and … didn’t matter. The thing that will never leave my mind about that instance was the first responders who showed up … and the med just shaking his head because he knew before he even checked that it was pointless and this was probably his 5th one this week

Downtown portland is some of the worst, I’ve seen a bunch of druggies nearby schools, once I saw some dude climb a fence after school hours to dump a bunch of needles on a slide. My mother has to go into Portland a lot for medical reasons, and she always carries a gun on her, never rolls down her windows, and locks the doors. Everyone who lives in Portland needs a dashcam or facecam for their cars. Thank god I live in the country.

Portugal has a different culture of support systems, communities, and commercialism. If you have more supportive families and resources, free healthcare, and housing opportunities; then of course you will have a different outcome than Portland.

And this all goes without saying more "fetty" is being shipped to Mexican cartels than Europe and being smuggled to a large population that the pharmaceutical industry got hooked off of pills over previous decades.

This

The dutch dude already said rehab doesn't work, and canada has free healthcare and greater social programs than the US. It doesn't work there either.

A Portland politician literally admitted they were supposed to do all this extra stuff once it was decriminalized. But they only decriminalized. They should have followed through with the housing, addiction counseling, mental health and everything else they promised.

And in a Democrat area.

Imagine a world where decriminalization is paired with comprehensive social support. People could actually get the help they need instead of being shuffled through the criminal justice system. But why go for practical solutions when you can just leave people to fend for themselves? After all, who needs affordable healthcare and rehabilitation programs when you can just, you know, not get addicted in the first place? Simple! And let's not forget the social programs that help people turn their lives around. It's almost like having a safety net encourages people to rebuild their lives. But in some places, the idea of investing in people seems more radical than decriminalizing drugs itself. Because nothing says "we care" like throwing people into a maze with no exit. decriminalizing drugs without a support system? It’s like giving someone a parachute and then cutting all the strings. But hey, at least it looks good on paper!

Enabling them to avoid destroying their bodies more than is necessary ? Enabling them to not get hepatitis or HIV and not seek treatment, spreading life threatening diseases through their communities and likely dying preventable deaths at a young age? Enabling them to live long enough to one day decide they've had enough and actually stop using? Drug addiction is a health issue not a moral issue, people will use the same needle for months or years if you tale away harm reduction, not just stop wanting/needing to use drugs. Why do you think harm reduction exists? We've spent billions of dollars, maybe trillions, and 50 goddamn years fighting a war on drugs, yet the same people in charge who started the war also realise that people will take drugs regardless of legality or whether they can get clean paraphernalia, you're not enabling anything you're reducing harm as the term itself implies. "Woosh" how dense can you be, are the stores selling people shot glasses enabling them to abuse alcohol and drink themselves to death? No? Then stfu and try thinking beyond the most shallow surface level dynamics of thw issue and your own superficial prejudice

it's more like they want them to overdose themselves so they can get rid of them... But what do I know?

Have you ever been through anything like it tho. No. It’s like punishing people for a disease ya don’t lock up anyone else with a disease

What's your point??? The government hook kindergartners and continued it for 12 years and the. Threw them away.and people like you are the problem not the addict

​@GINGER_KING_ Nope, you lock them up for committing crimes. Like loitering; public nuisance, etc. Not the drug taking.

So proud of you and good luck on your recovery ❤️‍🩹

Great, glad you got clean. What was it that helped you in the end, out of curiosity?

How did u stop 👀

I’m so glad you are recovering! My friend had endocarditis and didn’t get in recovery, until she kicked in the hospital. She has been in a nursing home, since age 43 or 44. She’s 51 now. She’s in multiple organ failure. I am 6 years off substances, but my health is not good, either. I am on a liquid diet indefinitely, and need a feeding tube but I’m still fighting to get one approved. I can’t swallow, food can’t leave me stomach well, and I can only pass waste by gravity. Dope put a near complete stop to my esophageal, GI (and below) motility, and doctors don’t know if it can possibly come back. As far as public education goes, I hear a lot about ODs, but not nearly enough about spending 16 hours a day trying to eat and eliminate the waste. When I slip and eat something solid, I can’t move my body from being bed for a week, without excruciating pain and I’m weak all the time, because I can’t afford my prescribed diet. I get no assistance because i have to go to school and pay money to do so. Welfare says 3 month training program is allowed, max. I have vocational certificates, an AA and BA. I can’t work enough, until I’m a professional with some ability to set my own schedule, because I spend hours trying to get food through my body. I was put on opiates, after a skull fracture and 5 ruptured discs in my lower cervical spine. I have worked and tried my hardest, my whole life. I ended up self-medicating pain, because my doctor moved and no one was prescribing. But that led up to my disability, including all the prescription meds used properly. I need uncovered surgery, chiropractic and PT, not just drugs, and no full opiates, ever. That was all they would cover, plus 20 times less chiropractic than recommended.

You're a 🤡. Like how dumb to get into any of that in the first place. How much taxpayer money was spent so you could "have fun"?

And in all that time it never occurred to you that they were lying to you to tell you what you wanted to hear?

@@amelliamendel2227they could’ve been but it’s also hella true what she’s saying. Most ppl do want to get better

They tell you to leave. They don't take you to a shelter. There aren't enough shelters for everybody. Only during the winter when it's freezing every homeless person can sleep somewhere inside. I live in Amsterdam. But if you're homeless and you really want help and a house you can get it!! But people have to show up and follow rules. Something a lot of addicts are not able to. But it's possible if you really want it!

@@yvonnedeboer7535 like in portugal

Better than canadian and USA police policies

@@MuttzyDoggthe first response to this comment is basically how the US works

Holland? You mean the netherlands

In the U.S., they prefer a more chaotic approach. Their strategy involves a blend of draconian laws, overcrowded prisons, and a thriving black market. It’s like a giant, nationwide game of "let’s see how badly we can mess this up." Why fix what’s broken when they can just keep adding more duct tape to it? Portugal has these pesky societal standards that make perfect sense-legalizing drugs but not allowing their use in inappropriate settings. Boring! In the States, they thrive on confusion and contradiction. They have legal alcohol, but public intoxication can land you in jail. Weed is legal in some states, but federally, it’s still a big no-no. They love keeping everyone on their toes! And then there’s the economic aspect. Think of all the jobs they’d lose in the prison-industrial complex if they followed Portugal’s lead. Imagine the horror of having fewer people incarcerated! Their economy thrives on the misery of others; why change that? So, while Portugal maintains their societal standards with a logical approach, the U.S. will keep doing what they do best: clinging to outdated policies, perpetuating confusion, and ensuring their justice system remains as convoluted as possible. Because if there’s one thing Americans excel at, it’s complicating the simple.

​@@elian0213✅✔️ Damn Straight -- You said it ALL.

Yep, Complicating the Simple.

Wait. Ten years will pass and Portugal will be lost as well. You just need a bigger addicted population. It's f up to allow drugs! 🤦🤬

America breeds stupid with stupid policies designed to keep you poor & unhealthy.

Yes absolutely glad he's headed in the right direction, a lot of potential here

I still think he sucks. He really does not care about anyone he's interviewing, he's just trying to get content. Admittedly he gets quite a lot of good content, which is why I keep coming here. But he is not a good person.

​@@beavinatorMost of not all RU-vidrs are clout chasera

​@@beavinator Neither are you, so pound sand.

tommy g better 💯

Underrated comment, I just finished that episode 😂😂😂

fentanyl and mental health crisis lol

That's no fentanyl in Europe the greatest cuntry in the world ye right more like satanic dump

Get

America has an open border problem. Close down the border and the drugs stop at the very least dramatically slow down.

Portugal SHOULD be a model for Greece. The countries have faces similar stuggles in similar times frames but Portugal is if not thriving, doing very well, and Greece is collapsing. Honestly may be a case where the EU takes an unprecedented step and steps in.

I remember watching a documentary on it years ago, was very interesting. One thing though, they were still going after dealers. Do you think it would be better to legalize and regulate the sale of the drugs?

Fellow tuga, saudações

@@hannahb.375 honestly i spent 8months in athens in 2023 and i must say the governament has no control over anything. The city is just in decay and full of drug addicts and crime is raising

@@snaz27 even when its legal there Will always be black market. But offering actual help to People, educanting instead of just making them addicts is the key

My addiction started with a prescription of Percocet 10yrs ago, then went to the street to get my pills after the doc cut me off. Things went sideways when a "friend" (sarcasm) introduced me to heroin. I spent the last 3yrs on fentanyl and did not miss a single day because I was so terrified of going through detox. Finally, broken and tired of living my life as a slave to opiate addiction, I asked God to send his son so he could wrap his arms around me and save me from the evil that had consumed my life. I pray every night for all those still suffering from opiate addiction and hope I can 1 day help others beat this horrible addiction. It IS possible, you just have to get through that month of hell when you first quit. Until we change the way society and law enforcement treat people in addiction, we will continue to see this opioid problem grow. The detox centers here in Georgia only keep people coming on fentanyl for 5-7 days. Unfortunately, days 3-10 are the worst so soon as they let people out, they are gonna go straight back to using to relieve the horrible symptoms. At 21-24 days you finally start feeling a little better but full recovery can take up to 3mo. This was what I experienced and had to go through it twice cause I relapsed after 3 weeks before finally getting clean on my 2nd try. Just don't give up... God bless those still suffering and their families.

Just know she is very proud of you and so am i. Kicking addiction is one of the hardest things someone can do and you did it! She’s may not be here physically anymore but just know her spirit will always be with you. Energy never stops existing.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Your daughter was so beautiful, and I could tell she was a sweetheart. ❤

She lives on in you, that much I can tel

❤🤗

Yh this is how it should be done

There are three bots at the top of the comments promoting the same shitcoin, fantastic.

@@0lle168 what

@@SPoBodos bots

Or...follow me for just a moment...their countries don't border a 3rd world shit hole like mexico who is run by the drug cartels

You just contradicted yourself brother. They wanted them to be legal so they can control us in the end when America is a full dystopia . It's all an agenda

When people are weak is when you can control them

@@eazythetruth yup and that is why they are doing bs rn

hospitals make a killing

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. Whenever something bad happens people automatically assume it's some sort of conspiracy. The reality is that it's wrong to expect people who are good at politics to be good at governing. The two are completely separate skills. People assume politicians have total control, so whenever something goes bad, it must be malicious. For what purpose would the overwhelming majority of politicians want what is happening?

So was that a cold turkey sobering up? Or did they provide you with MAT? Good for you!! Opiates are so difficult to quit

Let me ask. This seems like a personal choice to get out of drug use, so do you think counseling/ rehab works too? Seems that even though users are told to stop, they continue to do until something really traumatic really happens to them.

Thank you for sharing this!

Oh man, I know your withdrawal was bad. Congrats on staying clean. Opiates are the devil.

@@Emzzz78 He probably sobered up cold turkey. Jails and prisons are not good at giving medical care.

Trauma. You can ask everyone -- including science. The number one reason how addiction starts is trauma.

@@trashcan1291 I lost 2 wives to meth. Believe I know why people use drugs and alcohol to excess. Thanks

No, its called weakness​@@trashcan1291

@@tonyvalle794 sorry for your losses, man :/ I thought you meant it as a genuine question.

@trashcan1291 it's just my sarcasm. I should have posted. The drug issue hits home. Thanks for the comment.

Exactly and less expensive costs of general living..

Yh thats wild

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Yeah the thing i see over and over again is Portland didn't have any/enough treatment. Decriminalization in theory should work like repealing prohibition, but not when people can't get help to stop...

Getting “pissed” about public urination sounds like someone who has never been homeless and needed to use the bathroom.

Decriminalization of drugs, of deviancy, and of crime is the reason why people are shutting down their businesses and abandoning leftist/Democrat cities.

I mean alcohol and cigarette are legal almost all country but it still view as bad.

Ya bro é nojento

Because it is.

I mean we still view drugs as a crime although they are “legal” which many people don’t know and that’s a good thing

Mas nós não tem cá fentanyl. Havia de ser uma bela merda

Government is the drug supplier, com on...

You can smoke indoors?! Are you retarded?

Damn you cant smoke indoors?

you can get drunk on the street in Japan legally and its much safer and cleaner than the us.

Exactly. Most based comment I've seen in a while. People need to take responsibility for themselves and stop making excuses. I especially agree on what you said about the needle, that is disgusting. Leaving a used needle on the ground should be punishable up to at least 5 years in prison, considering how dangerous those things can be. And police officers should be inspecting any known homeless encampments at least thrice a day to ensure they're following the law. We need to be more pragmatic on these people, and more harsh to those that refuse to take responsibility.

Great topic

Absolutely!! I've worked oilfield and my body is a wreck.. when I tried to manage pain thru the medical system they treated me like I was a dope head just wanting to get high.. resulting in me getting addicted to dirty street drugs of all kinds. For most of my life... That would be a great topic for discussion..

@@Dannyasmussen I'm with you brother, God bless. Power to the working class.

@@Dannyasmussen completely understand you you’re not alone in that , fortunately or unfortunately

Do you mean that they start to resort to drugs or do you mean as a completely separate story?

Agreed. Tyle's videos have shown this but it's easier for us to initially latch onto a one sized solution. Until we start to think about it a bit more deeply, that is.

I'd say the biggest problem is poverty. People become miserable and they turn to drugs. As well as social media massacring peoples social capacity.

@@xgamermudkip7154 Poverty is likely a contributing factor but even in the USA there are places with high poverty and low drug addiction. The same occurs overseas quite a bit so poverty itself isn't the biggest problem. Poverty might serve as a nexus for many other issues but that's an important difference.

@@latetotheparty7551 because those places have a stronger sense of community and their cultures place more emphasis on things like empathy and care for one another. the overall culture in America is too individualistic

@@xgamermudkip7154bro it’s hella rich kids that do drugs tf you talking about. Most of these addicts come from middle class

Absolutely. I have several family members still living in Appalachia and many of them battle addiction because of terrible jobs/job opportunities, bad infrastructure, having parents who were also addicts etc. it’s completely self medication combined with it being the only form of entertainment young teenagers have. It’s really sad and I’m so disconnected from them which also makes me sad. Very hard to watch someone go through and realize there are no avenues to help them. On top of that, my father who is basically the only one of his cousins who “got out” is really successful and has a very pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality, because he did it. He does his best with my generation to house them and help pay for college, and he’s kind of taken it upon himself to save his family members he deems worthy I guess, BUT he’s very against most social welfare programs and stuff so I get two very different messages from his story.

I experienced the exact same thing. Back in early 2000’s when I sobered up there was ALOT MORE RESOURCES…. I went to treatment 4 times 5 th a charm. Now ….., it’s hard to go to treatment once !!!!!

I like the idea of being only allowed to smoke in your house we have rule here you can smoke just not on the streets but most dont care and including me i smoke sometimes but i do it in special places like me and my friends hate doing it infront of people as we do dont really want to disturb people when they are just taking a nice walk we mostly go to places where no one really comes especially not where kids hang around

​@@hannahb.375Seems you do get 2 diff msgs. The "everybody can do it cuz I did it" is bullshit.. Well, of course, in reality most everyone can but we're not all built the same & we all come from diff levels/depths of trauma, mental illness. & nature & nurture.

@@killerkiser8541 some drug use is recreational. others use it to dull mental anguish. still others have real physical pain that doctors can't or don't know how to treat.

Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏

YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

Congrats! I'm really happy for you that your wife decided to help you. I always admire those who beat their addiction. Knowing it's possible to fix your life knowing there's people out there that have done what I thought was impossible gives me hope I will make it through as well. Those who share their experiences don't know how much it helps when you're about to give up, it gives you the strength knowing somone who actully know what it's like to go through this tell you it's possible, it's not the same somone telling you you can do it when they have no idea what it's like, but hearing somone who knows what it's like that helps a lot since you understand it firsthand and made it out gives so much hope. so thanks for sharing.

How can i find him? Is he on Instagram

Morning it’s 8:30 pm!!

@@TurkeyTom. theyre probably in a different timezone

​@@luhv1ae*definitely different time zone*

is the non biased sarcasem, the one thing I don't like about him is he is so confrontational I would not like to be confronted by him.

Jesus can really bless your Sunday!

learn to write coherently sounding sentences

@@daathgnosis2098 I have no idea what you're on, but those two sentences look completely fine to me

​@daathgnosis2098 is that a joke? Your syntax and verb conjugation is atrocious

Weed is not a drug that should be illegal lmao it is much safer than alcohol and other legal drugs by far and very little side affects

@@daathgnosis2098huh what huh ?

Well, most of Scandinavia and post-communist countries still put people to prisons for posession of weed. *posession*.

Tylerrific

Giving them free drugs? I can't even get any medicine to help w excruciating nerve pain because of people in my geographic location abusing them. Ri-damn-diculous We are fucking doomed!

@@jikook7457 well ideally both would happen. Also, the drugs should be free but they should be cheaper

@jikook7457 - I'm curious, did you watch the documentary? Like the whole thing?

That had me rolling on the floor

Very well said. Irish addict here in a country that's overrun with drugs with a government that has completely turned a blind eye to this epidemic. Its absolutely horrible to watch our tiny island country turn into a lying,thieving zombie nation.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get clean? I'm super proud of you.♥︎

I'm so proud of you. 🫂💛

5 years and I quit cold turkey no problems. Weak people find it hard.

​@@TravisTheSavage liar

Is Portland where you get your shirts? Because it seems you need a shirt.

​@@jeltoninc.8542 😂😂😂😂

​@@jeltoninc.8542😂 please.

@@jeltoninc.8542 her nips must be raging because she needed to cover it up 😂

because portugal is a small country with nothing better to do then worry about the junkies because they have done nothing for like 80 years

Genuine question - if someone with money, American, wanted to retire there, to use to clean heroin (which is non existent in US) is that an option? Do the laws apply to immigrants too? Also does the decriminalization result in clean drugs or are yours as bad as ours?

@@johnathanlatman2507 I think you gotta search for that information because I dont know exactly how the law works on that particular case, but even if you are emigrant and the law doesnt aply here you can get the nationality in a few years, quite easily, about the drugs out here I dont think they are like the best in terms of quality but we dont have like fent so here you dont get that bad drugs if you know what I mean. But again Im not the best persone to educate you on that because Im not into that, but one thing I know for sure is that Portugal is a beautiful country where you have everything since country side to beach, so I recommend spending here your retirement just like madona did, also because if you have some money you can live pretty good here

I do cases like these all the time. You will need to apply for a very specific type of visa at first. In this industry we jokingly refer to it as the "heroin visa" but that's literally what it is. Email me your details and whether you will need #3 or #4 and I'll get started on the paperwork.

@@johnathanlatman2507 Why TF are you retiring just to do heroin....

Im portuguese.. ex user 20 years on heroína and coca you can find all on Lisboa, but white heroin is hard​ to find.. god brown and opium is all around and top coca. If you get cougt here you can have smal amouth for use like 5 to 10 days amouth, if you have residence you are tretetd like a nacional person or slap and go away maximu go to center 1time ... But now ir you have the € chose life my friend.. (sorry my bad English)@@johnathanlatman2507

It was so funny 😂

Bro I laughed my ass off

I knew someone would have a comment on that clip 😂

😂😂

Just came looking for this 😂

people typically know about 100 people on average if youre out and about you probably know a lot more, but hes probably not friends with them just knows of them

when i was actively using for 5 years at least 60 people i know died and fentynal aint a thing here so i can believe it

YOU don't know many people I guess, but you are NOT most people. Like the other commenter said, most people know around 100 people....actually, I think it's more like 150 average. It depends on your lifestyle and personality. Back when I used to like people, and I worked on the renaissance festival circuit, I knew hundreds of people fairly well. I'm kind of sick of people, and I'm a hermit now. The only people in my life are my (now adult) children.

Graduated hs in 2013 only 2 people out of 15 people I loved and cared about are gone it's more common than you think. Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor it destroys lives indiscriminately

hes the dealer prob

Legalize other drugs and alcohol will stop being the deadliest.

Being hungover right now I hate alcohol man

@@kevinkevin6542who asked

@@RiesbpGod did

Me ​@@Riesbp

And Portugal too, it’s a backwards world 💀

I was in portland in 2017 for a work trip. It was actually pretty nice. But I know it went down hard especially after 2020.

Zombie tourism

Is this the city from Izombie serie?... LoL

@@porschefanatic1049 pre-Floyd would have been closer to paradise, they had not started eating their own, plus Trump was at the helm.

I'm a recovering addict & you're absolutely right. Escaping pain & self medication of mental illness

I’m sorry you had to go through that but I know ppl who’ve never had to struggle and are full fledged drug addicts who only care about their next high so in the meantime ppl with Chronic pain will suffer

As we should. Their selfishness & greed for the high caused them their problems. Let's blame Guns & Bullets for throwing themselves at people killing them. Ban Forks for making people fat. It's all about choice.

@@novicenova Let me tell you something man. 10 years ago I was homeless, smoking crack, a general parasite on society. I got help, I got rehabilitated. I've been clean for 10 years. I serve the department of transportation by keeping our highway rest stops repaired and well maintained. That was all because I got the help I needed. We don't need hate man. We don't need death. We need empathy and understanding. We need to help, instead of get rid of. Other countries don't have these problems because they help, not dispose of.

How ignorant. You'd think you KNOW for a fact how their addictions started. Either way compassion helped me get sober. What kept me using was comments like yours. I chose to ignore it & got clean... My addiction started at birth pretty much. My mom never did drugs. I was born with a lot of medical issues & a rare condition that doctors didn't really detect for 25 years.. the pain from the nerves in my spine tethering was UNBEARABLE the pain meds were the only thing stopping me from commiting a self deletion. ​@@novicenova

That is not true. Hundreds of millions are spent on AA/NA programs directed towards users. America is the most generous country to ever exist.

​@@TheMeatballMan420good, because in America you can be redeemed. Wrong, America has empathy it always leds to enabling poor behavior. America needs balance and options/opportunities.

The problem is we're too stupid and selfish to look that far ahead

Inobody has community. Online ones don't count. I think that's one of the key aspects behind AA and church. The gathering and being apart of a community.

on prevention: its apparent that the business owned by the SACKLER family is responsible, and they pushed hard for their business to make the moves and take the actions it did because it expanded their WEALTH. it seems there are people (the SACKLER family being a part of this sub-set) whom are notorious for placing the accumulation of _all available resources_ for themselves, even when their share becomes more than what they can use in their own lifetime, is their _top priority_ . now, when there is a BLATANT and traceable genetic subspecies of people that relentlessly hound and scramble for every last penny despite the social or human cost, that seemingly over and over throughout history have caused significant damage and/or fallout due to their pathological obsession with the pursuit of wealth at _ANY_ cost (to themselves OR OTHERS, EVEN LIFE ITSELF) perhaps there should be an open discussion about the issue. every culture has its undesirable features: erosion of family unit, or casual dismissive attitude toward migration policies, or the disparate social standing of the sexes... or shameless racketeering around finance, media, agency and policy shaping purely to fortify their own folk (usually at the expense of other folk) no mater how much they might wail and shriek about 'persecution'. there comes a time when enough is enough.

@@notouchy Even 50 years ago I remember my Mother making comments about what people are in willing to do for the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR . Not only have things not changed but it's gotten SOOOO MUCH worse . Especially as Americans -- we are a society of extreme MATERIALISM while our morals , familial values , even basic manners fade away . The future looks so grim !!!

The only thing we had as children/teenagers was the DARE program

He covers it but tells half-truths. There's better sources for this type of coverage than him.

YOOO have you not seen that all over tik tok?! That dude went viral its nuts

@@Kellylynn_ no lol i don’t use TikTok, first time seeing him lol

It's on RU-vid

Well, in fact the drug use is decriminalised, however drug distribution, and possession over a certain limit are not, simple as that. I don't think anything that was said in this video was "painted pink", they just didn't speak about this part.. But I do agree with you that this should have been brought up, because it is a big factor in the whole strategy, which still looks at drug use as a health problem from the user's perspective, while it looks at drug trafficking as a crime problem, which I honestly think is an important distinction to make.

@@MaryannaPoppins yap, you're right. It has to be emphasized that the use of drugs may be a crime but the possession and consumption of drugs outside the defined level are not. This is the main thing that everyone should take note of. One of the ways the issue of drug use and drug trafficking is different is that, while the former is treated as a health problem, the latter is seen as a criminal act. All these details need to be discussed to provide a correct view of this arrangement

Portlandians don't understand basic economics. They legalize drug use they increase the need for rehab. Government gives them the funds they pretend to help and pocket the difference.

Did you actually watch the hole video? Data has clearly proved that by safely facilitating and giving people the option for full rehabilitation, works better then then punishing and forcing. What is better, someone going into public toilets and being high on the street and possibly being found dead somewhere. Or having a centre where there is professionals ready to step in if you OD? They will also educate and assist you with getting help when you feel ready. Throwing someone into rehab against there wishes simply won't work. They need help overcoming what makes them use drugs in the first place, and that can take some people a long time. You mite only be there for 3 to 6 months.

@@LG1ikLx Did you actually look at the data? The Oregon Health Authority has issued a statement that it has been challenging to acquire sufficient data from the BHRN's to determine whether or not Measure 110 has been effective. The only data we have is the amount of money spent on these centers and the demographics of people who use them. The turnover rate for the nurses is at 54% within the homes. For perspective 25% voluntary turnover is very high. What does this mean? It means poorly trained nurses. Worst of all the amount of tenants are increasing sharply. This is a recipe for a class action lawsuit.

@@LG1ikLx Your fallacy is appealing to authority by regurgitating the mission statement and using shaming tactics to demean those who don't share the same emotional allegiance to the mission statement. You never cited a single data point that shows the effectiveness of these clinics which clearly indicates your bias.

Supply the drug and supply the help, if you have never been an addict the you have no idea of what may work or what won't

I agree!

yes

Loietering?

@@garygriffin3647 Loietering?

Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable s0urce here in Australia. Really need!

Yes, blizmyco. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

Is he on instagram?

Yes he is. blizmyco

Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.

Like the one dude said there's plenty of other places in the US that are just as bad as Portland that never decriminalized. So that's probably not the actual problem or solution.

They should be in jail. They all commit crime to buy the drugs.

@@BabyJesus66 they can easily clean up the streets and help people, they just dont, almost like they want it like this,.. hmmmm

​@@mumsspaghetti6649 It shouldn't be jail in my opinion, it should be similar though in that they aren't allowed to leave the facility. It should be a place focused specifically on drug rehabilitation free of charge and for the first year the patients cannot leave the facility and then the next year are put on strict probation only being allowed to leave for work. There is no rehabilitation in US prisons it's just a cage where you get tortured.

Exactly!!!!!

No.. one side is just lazy, the one side starting 2020...

The conclusion is that American social programs are dogshit. Instead of helping American citizens the country would rather throw tax dollars at its war machine that’s lost every war since the 40s. American imperialistic culture and its own propaganda machine churning out the ideology that government help is bad is why America will fall. Why these people die and suffer. And the rich men and women who control the country will continue to run it straight into the ground because the idea of individualism has perverted not only those in power but every American

@@dertythegrower the opiod epidemic did not start in 2020 i hope you're aware

America will never be able to address this issue because there will be no America in future to begin with, Americans never learned anything from their history class (they were probably all stoned) opioids and drugs were widespread in china during their colonial rule, british importing opioids en masse enslaving the local population, which led to their downfall, junkies claiming drugs free them are truly high because they are just slaves of their own primitive mind and the corporations.

@@dertythegrowerWhat

Totally. It's a completely different scene in the U.S. It's messed up.

I've read that the drugs over there are not contaminated, You see drugs in the U.S and Canada are laced with deadly toxic chemicals, like fentanyl and xylazine that are so easy to overdose on or be seen walking around in a zombie like state, These chemicals are so strong that even when ther are revived from overdosing they simply do not care they almost died and are shooting up with the Same poison just hours later, So in a nut shell it's so strong that most cannot be reasoned with and refuse offered help and treatment and choose to live on the street until they die, so am I right that that these deadly chemicals are not in Portugal so addicts more approachable to options of treatment...