Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by theossuary on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:02PM
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If extreme penalties for illicit drug use were the part of the equation that worked, then why does Saudi Arabia's drug problem continue to get worse? They've had a marked increase in the abuse of amphetamines, cocaine, and opioids over the last two decades.
Maybe stop cherry picking the parts that you like and pretending like they're the parts that worked?
https://www.unodc.org/pdf/report_2000-09-21_1.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/pdf/trends2003_www_E.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR_2008_eng_we...
- Have extreme penalties for drug offenses.
- Have highly effective surveillance and law enforcement.
I guess we can all find what we want in Singapore: an effective police state winning the war on drugs, or an effective welfare state.