Oregon's drug decriminalization experiment, backfire or work in progress? 

That's in every city.

That’s exactly what communism looks like. Graffiti and human waste, garbage strewn all over the place! Travel abroad and you don’t miss it.

for dumb libs it is

Is that not a party? lol

​@@jamesbillingsby8043I like parties

lol. When you're on those kinds of drugs the last thing you care about is food and water.

Get your context and nuanced thinking outta here. This is the RU-vid comment section.

Our only “social service” that would actually separate helpless people from their enabling environment are prisons and now these states are trying to get rid of those too 🤣🤣🤣 the intention was never to help anybody when they decriminalized. Somebody is making a lot of money off of the mass importation of high margin product into that state and others like it…

the war on drugs has cost tax payers over a trillion dollars, with drug use being at an all time high. As history shows prohibition does not work and allows criminal organizations to create thriving markets. The land of the free has the worlds largest prison, 2.3 billion dollars. Bigger than communist China's. Half of all inmates are in for non violent drug offenses. It costs tax payers roughly $65,000 per inmate per year to incarcerate them. Do the math on that. And after inmates get out they are felons who can't get a normal job ever again and often have to resort to crime for a living. Speaking of crime, have you ever seen thugs selling alcohol and tobacco on a street corner? Ever hear of a cartel smuggling alcohol or tobacco over the border? Absolutely not. Criminals cannot compete with a legal market. If drugs were legal, and regulated cartels and gangs wouldn't exist. Mexico would no longer be run by them, so they could rebuild their country and immigration would go down. Crime would also go down in the US since drugs are the main source of income for gangs. We could also tax legal drugs and use that money to get people into treatment. Colorado's made tons of weed to help build schools and roads. Also law enforcement would be much safer not needing to focus on the dangerous drug war. That allow them to focus on much more important issues. But keeping drugs illegal obviously hasn't worked and is not working. The US currently consumes over half of the world's illegal drugs. Something need to be rethought here. Legal drugs would also mean they would be much safer since they would be regulated which would save thousands of Americans lives. They would also be much cheaper and easier for an addict to obtain so they don't resort to crime in order to support their habit.

We do but they don't want the help

the war on drugs has cost tax payers over a trillion dollars, with drug use being at an all time high. As history shows prohibition does not work and allows criminal organizations to create thriving markets. The land of the free has the worlds largest prison, 2.3 billion dollars. Bigger than communist China's. Half of all inmates are in for non violent drug offenses. It costs tax payers roughly $65,000 per inmate per year to incarcerate them. Do the math on that. And after inmates get out they are felons who can't get a normal job ever again and often have to resort to crime for a living. Speaking of crime, have you ever seen thugs selling alcohol and tobacco on a street corner? Ever hear of a cartel smuggling alcohol or tobacco over the border? Absolutely not. Criminals cannot compete with a legal market. If drugs were legal, and regulated cartels and gangs wouldn't exist. Mexico would no longer be run by them, so they could rebuild their country and immigration would go down. Crime would also go down in the US since drugs are the main source of income for gangs. We could also tax legal drugs and use that money to get people into treatment. Colorado's made tons of weed to help build schools and roads. Also law enforcement would be much safer not needing to focus on the dangerous drug war. That allow them to focus on much more important issues. But keeping drugs illegal obviously hasn't worked and is not working. The US currently consumes over half of the world's illegal drugs. Something need to be rethought here. Legal drugs would also mean they would be much safer since they would be regulated which would save thousands of Americans lives. They would also be much cheaper and easier for an addict to obtain so they don't resort to crime in order to support their habit.

Jail just moves them, which I guess is good in a sense, but doesnt change why more and more keep going down this path. I wonder why its US cities that have this zombie drug apocalypse when there are many other cities around the world that dont prosecute drugs either (because they dont have a police force like the US, or they dont care)

I have to agree with you there. It's also a little scary to force these people into rehab when they obviously don't want it. I don't like anything forced..

@@whatoh3407 Then don't go to prison.

@@kerafyrm_ Bro ypu are on the number one list. You are the poster boy of drug use and Kensington. Nice.

@@andrewquigley8938 are you on drugs? Wtf are you even saying lawl

Definitely made me laugh. Perfect analogy !!! 😂😂😂

I love this comment so much , I had to say it again 😂😂😂

Gross! They do it to themselves !

Why tf copy and paste someone else's article? Are you that clueless to form a our own opinion? Cringe.

gpt ahhh response

It never worked from day one

@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk lol yes that was my point

@@flamngopnk8053 yes I know

I'm an addict with 4 years of sobriety. Never did time of anything. But when ur in that Zoon. I don't know how I got money. It's a huge blur.. but answer ur question. Anything.

Theft. Note the part where they talk about the rise in property crime. Shoplifting has skyrockted. Did you see the $$2,000 bike next to one dude's tent? Stolen. Also, Oregon has a bottle bill - $0.10 for every bottle/can returned. Zombies rolling around the city with big bags of cans, rummaging through people's recycle bins. 20 cans will get you a fentanyl pill.

In your opinion, what is the solution ? Is it prison time, so if they do get clean, they now have a criminal record that will make it difficult to get a job? Or do you have something better?

So what do you believe the solution is?

That’s because places like Portland, Seattle and NYC don’t ever charge anyone with crimes.

That's why it's safer? 🤣@@Callsmit

They also don’t count less than 1K of theft as theft. Cops don’t come for help. Taxes keep increasing. Why the heck would I spend my hard spend dollars on a bad return on investment!? Denver is exactly like this.

It's America. Lot's of things that kill are legal.

you're an idiot

Is this just an american city thing? I lived in Vietnam for 5 years and there is literally no police patrolling the streets, you could essentially do any drug you wanted and would never get caught, but there is no zombie drug apocalypse like the cities in the US have.

the democrat plan

😂😂😂

Let him stay at your house

@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk Ah, yes a data backed response that could only have came from a boomer.

I don't think I'm a boomer

@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk Boomer is a mindset and a lifestyle as well as a generation.

@@ribtips305 um ok

Did you see the video? The people get help, but refuse.

That is the very thinking that got us here in the first place. It is an American thing. If you consider yourself an American, then it is your thing as well.

do indeed, these folks simply do 'not' have the skills to be permitted to vote, young children are not permitted to vote why in God's name are leftists who 'only' listen to their 'feelings'...

Demoting blue states to territories will do just that.

In your opinion, what is a better solution, to handle the addiction issue?

Why do you think it wil decrease long term? The users now started when drugs where illegal and more difficult to get. Now its legal, so kids see more and it's easier to get. It's a big opportunity for starting drug users and thus fore more drug users long term.

People didn’t get what they want because the public housing and social services that were supposed to be enacted with decriminalization was never enacted.

​@@ribtips305 Sure it's always someone else's fault.

@@brucecampbell4528 Ah yes, an insulated bootstraper with absolutely no comprehension of how the world outside the cognitive bubble that they’ve created actually works.

​​@@ribtips305 The oh yeah it can't be my fault people, it's because this funding didn't come through. Or the police didn't do something or something. I have to have someone to blame because I can't expect people to earn it themselves.

@@brucecampbell4528 You aren’t new and every year there are fewer and fewer of your kind. I guarantee you’ll end alone and be forgotten not soon after…. You’ll have given so little to this world that the people that know you the best will go years without even thinking of you.

the war on drugs has cost tax payers over a trillion dollars, with drug use being at an all time high. As history shows prohibition does not work and allows criminal organizations to create thriving markets. The land of the free has the worlds largest prison, 2.3 billion dollars. Bigger than communist China's. Half of all inmates are in for non violent drug offenses. It costs tax payers roughly $65,000 per inmate per year to incarcerate them. Do the math on that. And after inmates get out they are felons who can't get a normal job ever again and often have to resort to crime for a living. Speaking of crime, have you ever seen thugs selling alcohol and tobacco on a street corner? Ever hear of a cartel smuggling alcohol or tobacco over the border? Absolutely not. Criminals cannot compete with a legal market. If drugs were legal, and regulated cartels and gangs wouldn't exist. Mexico would no longer be run by them, so they could rebuild their country and immigration would go down. Crime would also go down in the US since drugs are the main source of income for gangs. We could also tax legal drugs and use that money to get people into treatment. Colorado's made tons of weed to help build schools and roads. Also law enforcement would be much safer not needing to focus on the dangerous drug war. That allow them to focus on much more important issues. But keeping drugs illegal obviously hasn't worked and is not working. The US currently consumes over half of the world's illegal drugs. Something need to be rethought here. Legal drugs would also mean they would be much safer since they would be regulated which would save thousands of Americans lives. They would also be much cheaper and easier for an addict to obtain so they don't resort to crime in order to support their habit.

Would you say the same if it was someone in your family? What about mentally disabled people? Just curious...

@@GAsh0012 My family has shunned members who refuse to get their act straight. Also, all drug addicts are mentally disabled; in the sense that they are controlled by their addiction.

@@GAsh0012YES AND I DID! You little socialists don’t understand what these vapid addicts do their own families !!!!

@@GAsh0012 my family are humans, they care about me and I care about them, my country has zero homelessness because our families and government care about our lives 🙏

are migrants flooding across your borders? Does your country have 330 million ppl? Comparing apples to oranges. Errbody starts out innocent then life happens. Many addicts followed their heart. Their lover turned them on to it. To error is human. But maybe not in your country🙄