I remember sipping whiskey on election night 2016, wishing a beverage existed that could be as sweet as the tears of those soy people in the Javits Center. I’m not a cruel man, but I was hoping that 2020 could deliver a bit more of that delicious despair. Nothing satisfies better than schadenfreude.
Some people try to get there by smoking a marijuana cigarette. My issue with that sort of thing is that guys make it into a lifestyle. I haven’t observed any of those that I’d classify as “winning.” In an age fraught with existential problems, legalized marijuana initiatives aren’t something in which I choose to invest my consternation.
So, I hadn’t been paying any attention to this sort of thing until it flashed across the screen that Oregon had voted to legalize drug possession by an 18% margin. That isn’t just weed. It includes cocaine, heroin, and meth.
I’m not too worried about cocaine because it’s expensive. A rich friend from LA once told me that cocaine was God’s way of telling someone he had too much money. It’s extremely prevalent in a places like DC or Manhattan but price is a real obstacle to bombarding the entire country.
Heroin and meth, on the other hand, have been a scourge. The folks who tend to get their lives destroyed by these substances aren’t high agency individuals with adequate critical thinking skills and future time orientations. It used to be well understood that there’s a slice of the population that must be saved from itself.
People don’t benefit from the ability to make bad choices. That’s a very dangerous notion that gained a lot of traction when everybody started calling themselves libertarians in order to avoid being labeled racists.
There was no meth problem in this country before it was made available for a reason. If it wasn’t for sale, nobody would be doing it. When very simple common sense gets muddled, this is what happens.
Drug-addled reprobates should be rounded up and concentrated into sobriety camps where they could reform themselves through hard labor. That would be an actual solution.
Decriminalization has been tried before in places like Portugal and it hasn’t achieved anything except lowering the number of drug arrests. Drug arrests are an excellent tool for public safety. Unlike Hunter Biden, most drug addicts are unemployable. They’ve got to commit crimes to pay for their habits. Jail interrupts their ability to transgress against the public.
It’s much easier to bust someone for drug possession rather than track them down after they’ve committed a crime against people or property. Nixon understood that drugs were the easiest way to lock up miscreants. That’s why he launched his war on drugs.
At the moment, we’re just talking about Oregon. It’s a state plagued by bums, where transgender mutilation is covered by health insurance and riots occur nightly. The problem is that this progressive idiocy tends to spread. Virginia has acquired an Oregon-style red-blue situation. I doubt it’ll be too long before we have it here.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
I’ve been a meth addict, almost 3 years sober now. Been in and out of prison throughout all my 20’s. I’m in my 30’s and things are stable. Prison is a wonderful place, heroin is $300 a gram instead of $20-30, your making 7 cents an hour, and if you break your word you’ll be forced to leave with violence to go to PC with snitches, child molesters, and other pieces of shit. It works lots of men just abstain, drink a little pruno and a pinner joint when they can get their hands on it. Never seen anything else be more effective.
I live in Oregon and if I could move, I would, back to West Texas. I refuse to go over the mountains to the west side of the state. This state is an armpit of liberal, progressive dumbthink, queers and transwhatever the current flavor is. I am a bit fortunate to live in north central POORegon, small town. I have seen what meth and heroin do. I mainlined for almost ten years starting in college 1970s, was finally able to quit cold turkey after the OD of my best friend and having to explain to his father what his son had still been doing. Went through complete and utter hell. Legalizing drugs IS NOT the way to do it. The ONLY hard core drug I take is my oxy’s because after 13 shoulder surgeries and three spinal fusions, it does ease the pain enough so I can function. I am fortunate to have a decent PCP who understands severe chronic pain. I still work part time at 67, got to. POORegon is not the model.
might just add that legalizing coke will lead to enough drop in prices, specially in the cheaper forms that are more hurtful…
1000% this article otherwise.