Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis.

The bill would recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as a low-level misdemeanor, enabling police to confiscate them and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks, its authors said. It also aims to make it easier to prosecute dealers, to access addiction treatment medication, and to obtain and keep housing without facing discrimination for using that medication.

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    Do you think kids should be subjected to people shooting up drugs when playing outside or when going to school?

    I am anti drug war personally but if any situation led to it being easier for kids to be subjected to that, that seems like a worse world.

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        It’s a relevant point. We don’t allow cigarette companies to advertise to children so should it be acceptable to advertise crack or coke?

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          The ban on tobacco advertisements is a relatively recent thing.

          We’re inundated with ads for alcohol and pharmaceuticals.

          Super unhealthy sugar-filled snacks and breakfast cereals made up like 90% of TV commercials when I was growing up.

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      All these negative effects are consequences of the war on drugs, not the drugs themselves. If society treats drug addicts as patients instead of as criminals, things get better. This has worked every time it’s been tried. The only reason it isn’t done in a larger scale is people who benefit from the war on drugs preventing it.

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        Do you think if we stop the war on drugs, that will reduce the number of homeless drug addicted people? I don’t think it will. There’s need to be more to it than that, otherwise you’re literally not preparing for the 2nd half of that foot drop.

        I largely agree alot of these problems are a result of criminalizing drug use but decriminizing doesn’t solve some of these problems with homeless folks which is probably more related to mental health services.

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          Ending the war on drugs will not solve every problem. But at least things will stop getting worse. And it’ll make it far easier to tackle all the other problems.