Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs. It Isn’t Working.
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I've said this before, but the Mad Scientist in me wants to decriminalize hard drugs and then promptly flood the streets with them. Like, complete fucking saturation. Lethal doses of your poison for pennies.
And then just... let the problems resolve themselves.
Sadly, I'd also have to completely revoke any and all medical care for said drug addicts. You overdosed? To bad, so sad. Please crawl into this conveyor so we can shove your corpse into the incinerator.
So this'll never happen until I become dictator for life. Pity.
The problem with that idea is, most drugs don't make you impotent or infertile. Nor do they kill you fast enough. So you will end up with (even more) legions of suffering children born into absolute misery and left to also die in that pit.
Which is something I doubt most of us could stomach even if we tried to justify it using the ends.
I'm a foster parent and I agree with this message.
Then spike the hard drugs with birth control of some sort.
Or let them have treatment once - that involves them getting fixed while their asses are being saved.
FAS babies aren't any better than crack babies.
Revoking medical care for ODs would be fine. Caveat emptor.
I favor across-the-board legalization, ending the doctor/patient prescription ritual, making all drugs available OTC to adults 18 and older.
This would need to be accompanied by an escalation in penalties for public intoxication and illegal trafficking--5 years w/no parole for the former and 20-to-life w/no parole for the latter. And no advertisement.