Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by joenot443 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:40AM
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I presently live in New York but I lived in Seattle in 2020. Open air drug use and homelessness in general is unquestionably a bigger problem in Seattle, despite NYC lacking some of the more progressive policies west coast cities have become so famous for. Anyone who's lived in both the east and west coast can attest to the difference, it's so stark that I find it funny people are still asking if broad coastal politics _might_ have something to do with it.
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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by mostlysimilar on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:04PM
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I live in Seattle and recently visited NYC. It was shocking how much cleaner it was, at least the neighborhoods I spent time in. I expected at least similar levels but I saw nothing like Seattle's public drug use and mental health crises on the streets.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by duped on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:10PM
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My question isn't about how visible drug addiction is but any actual metrics that can compare actual drug addiction rates and prevalence between places with decriminalization and those without.
Because just some cursory googling suggests that these cities do have less incidence of drug addiction/use per capita. But I don't really know how accurate that info is, and anecdata doesn't count.