ya think?

nah , that's not the case here..

And why is there no leadership to legislate reversal???? The MAJORITY of hardworking taxpayers have watched as their quality of life slips away. The laws were not adhered to, they didn’t investigate people living on the street to see if they were legal residents, had any property or resources such as Pensions, SS, etc. to contribute to sustaining themselves. People behaved illegally and abominably- destroying and defacing public property, and not held accountable. Police, who did tremendous work upholding the law, while keeping the lid on an extremely volatile pressure cooker, were initially denied the support of the feeble 1:57 , but worse, the DA whose purpose is to function as an officer of the court, arbitrarily refused to prosecute those arrested. He’s elected, by the way, so should have been functioning for the good of the whole. It is great a person got off drugs and it now leading a productive life. I applaud and congratulate them. Why is an entire City held hostage because someone has chosen the route to addiction??? The law, however, needs to be reversed. A once vibrant, modal City has been erased. Downtown had businesses blocked with street dwellers, garbage was everywhere, and there were gunfights in broad daylight. The City’s funds have to be dispersed because these addicts cannot cleanup after themselves. Parks, buildings, historic statues will cost a fortune to bring back. The businesses had to not only endure huge declines (if not closures) the Mayor raised their taxes to pay for his atrocious policies and unprincipled leadership. The political system needs rebalance. Honest, hardworking taxpayers, who try to keep rooftop over their head, food on the table, and provide a good education for their children, are asked to also pony up for others people’s (the minority) bad choices. Why are they being held accountable?? Portland was not a City without service before accommodating indigents camping out (in City provided tents). The idiotic change in the drug laws overwhelmed them. You can be sympathetic to the plight of others, but there is a fiduciary responsibility to the Citizens and Businesses that built the place and made it work. The open drug laws just attracted more people with problems (many, like the gun wielders, not from Portland, nor even Oregon. It had some measure in raising the cost of housing. So, too, did property owner/property management unbridled greed. It’s the natural progression of an ill thought out piece of legislation. Let’s see if anyone can reel it back and put the City of firm footing.

You think

​@red32_12 Really what is going on then 🤔

It wasn’t just Portland. It was the entire state.

Trump won’t become president no matter what you say

@@MPerry-ox9qb That makes sense. I bet it is causing problems in the other cities too then.

I'm drive around to deliver didn't see much in Texas😅​@MPerry-ox9qb

We have pretty bad drug problem in my city (different state) too and there is no decriminalization here. I think they had a good intention but they failed somewhere

It might have worked in places that aren't overrun by self-victimized Narcissists and Sociopaths.

​@@gregj831Stop copying and pasting your comment everywhere.

It’s still illegal under law. It’s just that the city won’t spend money on cops arresting every homeless person they see.

You are aware genius...that they will still get the drugs? It actually has worked in OTHER countries.

@@Somberdemure Wrongs wrong? Afraid of the truth?

No because those addicts will spread outwards

Our country is hitting rock bottom right now.

this is because people are disobeying God

State

​@@thecarpenterssheep religion has nothing to do with this. Stop shoving your beliefs down people's throat. It turns everyone off from it. Exactly why I'm not religious

@@Jungle_Twist my friend, this has everything to do with people turning away from God, and last I saw this was a free country. Jesus called drunkennes (which also includes drugs) a sin, and now Portland is living proof of what becomes when you don't listen to God. repent before its too late, God Bless

@@Jungle_Twist why you so hostile? Im just telling you the truth, doing drugs is a sin, people are not obeying Jesus and im telling you because I care about you, not out of hate

That is exactly correct, and Portland does not have that. It does have a healthy population of self-victimized Narcissists and Sociopaths and therein lay the issue.

Blah blah blah

@@gregj831 Exactly, a recipe for disaster.

@@gregj831 correct.

You know, one can have morals without religion.

Its not legalization, and that's the problem. This is decriminalization, which I've never liked because people still have to buy their drugs from shady drug dealers that could do things like lace your cocaine with fentanyl. Legalization would make it so we could have actual regulation, which means we could cut down significantly on the harms associated with hard drug use. You could limit peoples supply, and the supply would be guaranteed to be clean.

@@krich451this was exactly the problem Portland has that Portugal already solved. There needs to be regulated supply from government agencies and clean use sites that offer rehabilitation as well

Who cares ...many people simply cannot handle being alive... God Loves them and wants to give them EVERY desire they have.

​​@@krich451100% agreed with this. I've been advocating for this for a long time. Plus we can't do this in one state... It has to be federal.. And the addictive/harmful drugs must be supplied by the government at zero profit.

Decriminalization works it just didn't work here in Portland. Look to other countries overseas for examples it works beautifully but they dropped the ball here. Severely

Exactly. If the success rate of this law is anywhere below 80% after three years, it’s an utter failure. One anecdotal success story doesn’t make a difference here.

Ebony is very selfish. She doesn't care the law is ruining her city. She only cares it kept her from getting locked up.

Well said. She is most definitely the exception and not the rule.

Portland tried to implement successful drug programs from other countries however they made a crucial/critical miscalculation. They didn't take into account that Portland had a very healthy population of self-victimized Narcissists and Sociopaths.

Anyone who gets off drugs is just making a choice. Sure resources help, but in the end it's a choice.

@@pauld.b7129 you are 100% right. I myself was an addict. The only reason I’m recovering is because I finally made the choice that I don’t want to live that way anymore

That's why in Taiwan there are counties. And there are "self governing cities". The city has its own laws, and the rural county make another set of laws

If I remember correctly, any municipality with over 1 million residents can apply to the provincial government to become a "self governing city"直轄市

Exactly what I was going to say-she is the exception and not the rule.

Didn't explain how she got clean either. And why a short jail sentence wouldn't have done the same thing. In the end, beating addiction is a choice. She made a choice. There's really nothing more to it.

It means drug overdose deaths went from 280 in 2019 to over 1000 in 2022, the latest data. Good going Oregon, what could possibly go wrong?

Remember, this is the city that defunded their police and allowed a group of anarchists to take over several blocks as a no-police zone with the unchecked violence and murders that police try to curtail.

havent you guys always had a serious drug problem before decriminalization?

@@InvisibleHole Yes and no? We have long been part of international trafficking between Canada and Mexico due to i-5 running through the city. Previously people mostly did drugs in houses, there were spots where you were always running across needles, but now its so much worse. The homeless population has exploded, I now see people doing things like smoking fentanyl on mass transit, sleeping in doorways, pooping in those same doorways etc.

On the bright side, I'd guess that their drug crime is almost non-existent now. It's a win for them on their crime statistics.

you got it., they got their fix..

Stop telling people what to put in their bodies. Also, stop giving them assistance.

Well when you legalize drugs in one area of the country ya drug addicts are gonna flock there look up Portugal they are the only country in the world with legalized drugs in the entire country and drug use has dropped and violence dropped as well because of the boredom of no longer having to look over your shoulder

Aww but if it was illegal, those drug addicts might have to spend a week in jail because of their crimes 😢 And everyone knows a week in jail is basically a death sentence 😂 Honestly jail is 100% better than how these people live

Or order it from China where QC testing is lax.

THANK YOU !

That's what I say. I think China should increase the potency of their products.

lol when you loose a family member that could’ve been saved with narcan come back and reflect on this post

@@zanemilam227 none of my family are drug users so I don't need to do that and furthermore I don't follow your orders anyway leftist

The Dems? We’re the Sacklers democrats? Read a book. Randy.

Actually it was both the Libertarian Party and the Green Party that advocated for the legalization of drugs. Not the Democratics, please stop blaming one political party when there are more than two political parties. People always seem to forget about the other LIBERAL parties and their affiliates. Geesh!

Ignorance is bliss.

So do better if you can and stop gas lighting. Wtf!

​@MikeC32958 that's how voting works, mate

Funding and legalization would prevent the deaths by giving a reliable source of product.. instead decriminalization enables drug dealers to sell adulterated product.

​@@greg9069or it would create new drug addicts who are now looking for the cheapest drug.

A command center! Sound very strong.

A Border Czar, all we need is a Border Czar.

Lovely place

Stay classy ⁉️ Those days are gone ‼️ I lived in Hawaii, Santa Barbara CA, Boca Raton FL, Washington and Portland. Portland was my favorite. Last time there was 2001. I was told then about the gangs. And they added FREEDOM TO BE REAL MESSED UP ON ILLEGAL DRUGS ⁉️ They should be in a fenced area so we don't see your bad idea. VOTE REPUBLICAN IF YOU WANT A CHANGE‼️💪✌️

Look up the word “sarcasm”@@garypasseno374

You can't really expect anyone to arrest China or Mexico, huh ? Let's go golfing . I like golf .

What for? Where they gonna get their drugs then. It’s legal

Not a police matter. Send somebody else. Cops ain’t into that now.

I'm sure cops know the dealers. Likely, DA Schmidt would refuse to prosecute for "equity justice" reasons.

@@williamobryan682 China doesn't sell to the users...there is a seller on the street feeding the zombies.

*Portland has other self-inflicted wounds as well, it's not making a comeback anytime soon.*

My thoughts, too. I'm barely able to support my family of three without doing drugs, tobacco or alcohol. How can ppl afford the added expense?

Excellent‼️ Funny ✌️

We gotta test Darwin's theory...

New and different? Sure, it's fine, they can use *_all of the drugs they can ever want,_* just don't expect any *_real law abiding citizens_* to have any sympathy on them because they've spent the last 3 years robbing everyone of everything that isn't bolted down to feed their habit, and don't expect emergency services to get to them quickly when they're overdosing. Remember now, Portland police and emergency services have effectively had their arms tied behind their backs, to the point that the police aren't even arresting anymore for theft or violent crimes, and hospitals are just saving people from overdose so they can go out and *do it again.* Talk about new and different.

The idea does have merit however what the Government in Portland failed to take into account is that Portland already had, a very healthy population of self-victimized Narcissists and Sociopaths.

Yes, too many opinions and not enough actions with preventive health medical aid as not enough beds failed it.

Oregon jails are not overflowing with low-level drug users. That's propaganda.

You got it ‼️

Right, the lack of services was a major issue. The drugs are not legal, you still have to buy stuff from some dude on the corner with no quality control measures who can mix whatever they want into what you buy. You have to legalize, tax, regulate and use the tax's to fund services for this to work.

​@@Kefka.Your approach doesnt work, at all. Services were available but people chose not to use them. People will still buy drugs illegaly even if sold by govermnent regulated places: dealers will undercut. Taxes will not be enough and will require a lot of funding to keep something like you mention viable. Portugal tried what you describe to some extent and funding was one of the major issues overtime. All decriminalizing or legalization does is create more addicts in the longrun and demoralize a society further. Drug issues tend to not be a major issue when your society has morals.

"I was all for the decriminalization of drugs"...You are the problem entirely.

Democrats

So❓🤪👽

Actually it was both the Libertarian Party and the Green Party that advocated for the legalization of drugs. Not the Democratics, please stop blaming one political party when there are more than two political parties. People always seem to forget about the other LIBERAL parties and their affiliates. Geesh!

@@divinelyguided4800 Libertarian party and Green party runs Portland? I thought it was DEM

They act like their hands are tied, legalization is much better, as it gives drug users reliable source, decriminalization enables drug dealers to sell adulterated product without punishment.. they knew what would happen, they knew it wasn’t a solution. You cannot tell me that you, and all these politicians have never done a drug before, so why can’t we think logically about the problem and actually do something to fix it instead of unable further adulteration and accidental OD.

How do you fix drug addiction from starting? Stop the supply sure would be a start? Educating kids on it? And yes, if someone is on the street shooting up homeless, they need forced rehab, and closest thing there is now is prison. Mandatory 60 days for drug use. This forces you to get clean, and start the process with a clean head. Right now there is no one able to do anything and these drug addicts waste away on the street. You think wasting away on the street not be prosecuted is MORE humane then locking them up unable to use, and get a clean head? And MAYBe be able to break the addiction? @@greg9069

Exactly‼️🤪👽 Used to be a very upbeat cool city with excellent restaurants. ✌️

Way to go‼️💪