If it only was that simple! Decriminalization has been tried and failed before in other countries as well. Greater freedom ought to come with greater responsibility and culpability!
Unfortunately, the tyranny of a minority becomes the detriment of the majority!
As a classical liberal I am all for decriminalization, but only if e.g. individual responsibility and culpability is clearly increased when taking or under the influence of drugs and minors have to be protected. Unfortunately, decriminalization is too often tried without the increased individual responsibility and culpability! E.g. driving under the influence and causing in an accident should automatically be punished double!
"Oregon’s political leaders are on the cusp of ending a three-year experiment as the first and only state in the nation to allow people to freely use drugs. Backers of the 2020 ballot measure, which passed with 58% support, successfully convinced their fellow residents that decriminalization would mean fewer nonviolent drug addicts in prison and more in treatment. But while the first part of the prediction proved true, the second didn’t. Instead, public drug use has become rampant, as people can now smoke fentanyl and use other drugs on sidewalks with no consequences."
"As a firefighter-paramedic in suburban Portland, Dacia Grayber has seen the ravages of Oregon’s drug epidemic: fentanyl addicts stumbling around like zombies or collapsed in fetal positions. Last year she watched a young addict pass away with his 2-year-old daughter curled up on his chest. ..."
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