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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1458638)	5/24/2024 10:00:55 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By Eric Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570652

Tenchusatsu AGAIN you lie. > If criminalization produced addicts I never said that. You're not very rational... see the STATISTICS below. I said fentanyl is the result of criminalization. You just don't understand addiction. Rock climbers risk their lives... same as those inclined to try drugs. Laws don't stop them. Politics in Oregon proves nothing. Alcohol prohibition PROVED without a doubt criminalization does not stop people from getting stoned. The drug war is a complete failure for 90 YEARS now. How long & how many will die as we continue to butt our heads against a FAILED policy? Alcohol prohibition CAUSED crime, financed the mafia, corrupted cops... to this day the mafia corrupts. Alcohol prohibition led to deaths & blindness from bad booze just like fentanyl. The price of smuggled drugs causes addicts to resort to crime. Morphine is actually pretty inexpensive to produce & safe. One friend of mine got addicted after a work injury, he resorted to street drugs & is dead. He was pretty scared he'd OD & did. I miss him, smart very funny guy. He'd be alive right now were drugs decriminalized. Neither rock climbers or drug users are stopped by the dander of dying ... so YOU think laws will work? Portugal's drug policy is a good model According to the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, illegal drug use among Portuguese teenagers declined after 2001, and 45 percent of the country's heroin addicts sought medical treatment. How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed - If you get caught with heroin in Portugal you are ordered to take classes about addiction. This doesn't stop addicts from getting stoned but it does help them if the decide to get sober. Much more effective AND humane. AND WAY WAY cheaper than jailing millions, paying useless cops.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1458638)	5/24/2024 11:47:24 PM
From: pocotrader	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570652

we are doing that here too, decriminalization of drug use had addicts openly doing drugs in public places shocking our citizens so we are going back to charging them. I have little sympathy for those who want to ruin there lives using hard drugs, I've known some drug addicts and alcoholics, most never changed and ended up dead. My youngest Daughters childhood best friend is now a full blown addict lost to her parents and they can't do a damn thing if she does not want help.