To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use

Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by sneak on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:24AM (#38610222)

Cigarettes kill 7x as many as fentanyl every hour, day, week, month, and year.

One is available without prescription on every streetcorner, with use allowed in public in proximity to others, and the other is a public health epidemic.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by beezlewax on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:22AM (#38610627)

That being the case doesn't negate the fact that cigarette users are not turned into some version of the walking dead but who'd do literally anything for a fix.

Tobacco has a lot to answer for but it isn't the same kind of issue at all. It doesn't destroy communities so directly.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:57AM (#38611558)

I've seen plenty of people do nothing but drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, and complain, all day, every day, year after year.

You might argue that it's the alcohol doing the zombification but I posit that surely the tobacco also has something to do in this equation.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by blackshaw on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:43AM (#38611434)

Cigarettes kill you slowly over decades, fentanyl can kill a first-time user with a single dose.

Moronic analogy.

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