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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by amluto on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:07PM (#38608390)
If it’s genuinely dangerous for passersby when people are on the streets and have high doses of meth in them, then maybe?

I don’t know nearly enough about the behavior of mentally ill homeless people and how it varies with addiction status and current meth levels, but I think there is no shortage of recent reports of dangerous addicts in various cities.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by chmod600 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:45PM (#38608685)
You're the one who proposed the regulation ("particular establishments or at home"), and now you are already second-guessing whether it should actually be enforced (asking if it's "genuinely dangerous... maybe").

Regulation sounds good, but it doesn't just happen because it's written down. Enforcement is the messy part.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by amluto on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:43PM (#38609132)
> You're the one who proposed the regulation ("particular establishments or at home")

I am?

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by chmod600 on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:54PM (#38609221)
My mistake.

My question stands, then: does "legalize and regulate" mean that there would be regulations preventing the stated problems in Portland, and that they'd be actually enforced? Or is it essentially just the same as plain legalization?

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