Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs. It Isn’t Working.
(www.wsj.com)
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Low impulse control with a genetic predisposition to addictions meets no punishment plus accomodations for junkies.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
I mean, we literally saw the exact same thing happen in Portugal: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/portugal-drug-decriminalization-problems-oregon-measure-110/283-3fbbf723-2b00-41f5-bdd0-6430add9df97
I'm not sure why this is a surprise to anyone.
That's always going to be the case when legalising hard vices.
People literally cannot control themselves, and it always devolves into a dystopian nightmare.
Eons ago humans figured this out and that's why there were either hard bans or strict restrictions on certain vices because it was obvious what would happen without limits.