Oregon voters passed a referendum few years ago supposedly along the same lines and now they’re all mad. i don’t know the details but my best guess is bad law and bad implementation.
Comment on one of the really bad, annoying aspects of doing drugs is the lack of quality control
Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Actually in the Netherlands there is a program is called “Drugs Information and Monitoring System” (DIMS). You can take your illegal drugs there without facing any type of punishment. They’ll test your drugs (usually) for free just to see if they contain what you’d expect. It’s a harm-reduction project.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That was just decriminalization and the state legislature never followed through with anything on their end, let things get worse, and then acted like saviors by overturning the law, funneling all that funding toward police. It’s pure bullshit.
Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
THANK YOU. Watching jackassy mouth-breathers be like ‘they legalized everything, got burned, and flipped it back’ is infuriating. Places like Portugal created the medical backing to sustain the decriminalization efforts and places like Oregon didn’t fucking try.
If i was a conspiratorial, I’d say it was intentional to push back decriminalization efforts, and fill the prisons but it was probably cuz they’re fucking stupid.
Source: anecdotal, from a psychonaut from Oregon.
philpo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Same in Switzerland,btw. And going on for a long time.
Very effective - there is ample evidence that it reduces both the amount of overdose as well as the general rate of addiction
kcweller@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Came here just to say this! At nearly every music event and most big cities you just have a place where you can go, no judgment, to have your stuff tested, it’s the best!