As reported in Willamette Weekly, "Multnomah County Will Distribute Tin Foil and Straws to Fentanyl Smokers" This supposedly discourages IV use and encourages smoking.
Mayor says, “This misguided approach also results in greater risk to public safety for those who simply want to enjoy our city without walking through a cloud of toxic smoke."
Looks like they’re also handing out “snorting kits.” Portland is like watching some kind of dystopian social experiment to see what happens when you make the wrong choice 100% of the time.
Looks like they’re also handing out “snorting kits.” Portland is like watching some kind of dystopian social experiment to see what happens when you make the wrong choice 100% of the time.
I don’t buy the whole “the government is trying to eliminate the population” thing people say but policies like this make me think maybe they are trying to get rid of the bottom 10%.
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
A bunch of brothers play touch football at my local track on Sundays, so of course you catch a whiff of pot smoke every time you pass their bench. At first I was holding my breath on each lap, but soon realized that there wasn't enough to have any effect.
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
Cities on the leading edge of liberal drug policies find that they create and attract more drug users. The new mayor of Denver wants to build tiny houses for homeless drug addicts (which will only attract more homeless drug addicts to his city). Legalization has done wonders for Portland. Overdoses have increased and there are more dirty hippies than ever.
Looks like they’re also handing out “snorting kits.” Portland is like watching some kind of dystopian social experiment to see what happens when you make the wrong choice 100% of the time.
Yeah because if you don't have a drug, mental health and homelessness crisis then what happens to the public servants that take measure 110 and the income it garners to pay their 200k a year salaries? Yay capitalism and yay democrats (because they run this city, county and state).
I'm tired of hearing that affordable housing is the solution here - what, as in free housing? Yeah okay. Some people have been neglected since birth so bad it is beyond plausible and feasible reality they can be rehabbed - maybe the problem is just destined to "sort itself out" in tents and crapped out parked cars over the city.
As reported in Willamette Weekly, "Multnomah County Will Distribute Tin Foil and Straws to Fentanyl Smokers" This supposedly discourages IV use and encourages smoking.
Mayor says, “This misguided approach also results in greater risk to public safety for those who simply want to enjoy our city without walking through a cloud of toxic smoke."
Which is it? A risk or no risk to runners?
Isn’t it obvious? They’re trying to kill them off with their own fix. They know these people won’t go away on their own
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
Cities on the leading edge of liberal drug policies find that they create and attract more drug users. The new mayor of Denver wants to build tiny houses for homeless drug addicts (which will only attract more homeless drug addicts to his city). Legalization has done wonders for Portland. Overdoses have increased and there are more dirty hippies than ever.
100% right. I love this "war on drugs isn't the way" narrative as if we think that relaxation of law and elimination of incentive to not use drugs and break said law will appeal to the rational mind of mentally ill and lifetime neglected drug users.
It's the classic white privilege take on the issue - us redneck "simps" don't understand. A lot of the time those comments are written by deluded knobheads living in inherited estates far away from the problem that think reading some fruity existential philosophy paper from some Cal Berkley d-ckhead on the virtues of enablement and righteous decision making is the secret to solving fentanyl addiction amongst people with no worldly possessions except gifted tents, things they stole from peoples yards and literal garbage.
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
While “cutting edge” cities are engaging in “harm reduction techniques” that are superior to “filling more jail cells”, this is what happened to drug overdose deaths.
While “cutting edge” cities are engaging in “harm reduction techniques” that are superior to “filling more jail cells”, this is what happened to drug overdose deaths.
Good. Nobody's trying to stop fentanyl deaths. I think you are missing what harm reduction means. It means reducing harm to society. Not the stupid people killing themselves. In fact if anything we are trying to hurry them up.
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
Yeah, but this is kind of the worst of both worlds.
Either you legalise drugs, so that you can put the biggest scumbags on Earth (drug dealers) out of business. Thus, ending their reign of immiseration on large swathes of the population.
Or, at the very least, you don't facilitate drug use (which is, in essence, assisting said scumbags in maintaining their criminal empires).
While “cutting edge” cities are engaging in “harm reduction techniques” that are superior to “filling more jail cells”, this is what happened to drug overdose deaths.
Good. Nobody's trying to stop fentanyl deaths. I think you are missing what harm reduction means. It means reducing harm to society. Not the stupid people killing themselves. In fact if anything we are trying to hurry them up.
You could always try the 'war on drugs' approach and toss millions into the clink.
Last I checked, the US was looking for ways to disengage from the war on drugs and find other, better ways, including harm reduction techniques.
Cities that engage in harm reduction are on the leading edge of finding new, better answers to the reality of drugs. They're trying, instead of admitting defeat through filling more jail cells.
You simps can b*tch about it, like the idiot Vietnam vets who still insist that we could have won that war, or you can hope that we collectively arrive at better answers.
"Harm reduction" hahaha what a joke. Sure, maybe some won't die of AIDs but they'll still die on the sidewalk of fentanyl. Yaayy, then the libs can pat themselves on the back for being so "empathetic."
How am I supposed to avoid fentanyl smoke in Oregon, piles of feces in San Francisco, syringes in Seattle, marijuana smoke in Denver, and bullets in Baltimore & Chicago? I think that I should just stay in a safe space if I am ever in any of these cities!!
How am I supposed to avoid fentanyl smoke in Oregon, piles of feces in San Francisco, syringes in Seattle, marijuana smoke in Denver, and bullets in Baltimore & Chicago? I think that I should just stay in a safe space if I am ever in any of these cities!!
Why would I want to go to any of those hellscapes if I don’t have to?
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