Comment on Oregon Reverses Liberal Drug Law After "Losing A Generation" To Addiction

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have a different governor and elected state officials? That is news to me. Here I thought we had one governor and elected body for the state of Oregon.

  What the second capital?

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  • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would accuse you of playing dumb but I don’t think you are playing.

    You should understand that aside from the big cities, most of the state leans right. You should also be able to grasp that local officials have some influence over local political issues, like the implementation of various ballot measures. But you’re so hot to blame them dang ole democrats for ever bad thing, you want to act like you don’t know this?

    I wont argue against the fact that democrats are largely useless, but how is going back to the war on drugs a better solution?

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It failed across the state. The issue was at the state level. Trying to blame Republicans is just weird and factually incorrect. 110 was fairly popular en.wikipedia.org/…/2020_Oregon_Ballot_Measure_110

      Josephine was 46 to 53. So while they voted against it, it wasn’t a landslide.

      This was a major democrat failure to actually implement a good idea. I supported 110. Most people I know supported 110.

      Everyone I know is disappointed that the Democrats FUBAR it. This could have been a demonstration to the rest of the country of how to deal with drugs. Instead, people now think we can’t decriminalize and treat addicts.

      What the Democrats should have done is spent a few years building up the resources to support 110. When the resources were in place, they switched to decriminalizing it.

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      • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OK, I can’t argue with that. In my defense I didn’t expect you to come at me with facts and logic, but when you’re right, you’re right.

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