That's my point. Portugal found a way, but no one will look to their success for answers.LOL Recriminalizing won't help, but I'm sure that the fed knows that...
I think it was people hanging out in public smoking fentanyl that pushed us over the edge.The Oregon gov is recriminalizing drugs thanks to fentanyl deaths.
Portugal hopes to avoid doing that, should fentanyl come here. So far, it's not a problem.
It's really sad. Damn. They're actually smoking just fentanyl?I think it was people hanging out in public smoking fentanyl that pushed us over the edge.
Portugal is not similar to the US in any way shape or form. To think that their approach to the issue could be replicated in the US is madness.That's my point. Portugal found a way, but no one will look to their success for answers.
Well, call me mad then.Portugal is not similar to the US in any way shape or form. To think that their approach to the issue could be replicated in the US is madness.
Even Sindy who likes to dabble (not In fentanyl) was appalled by it.I think it was people hanging out in public smoking fentanyl that pushed us over the edge.
Interestingly, that's better than injecting heroin.
I was given Fentynal by EMS a couple times in the last couple years for my Ambulance adventures.Injecting drugs is just really bad.
Fentanyl is successfully used in medicine. The problem with streets drugs is that people that don't know what they're doing are distributing it.
At the time Fentynal had yet exploded into the scourge on city streets it was around but, the "legalization" was voted for and passed by a healthy margin, the thinking being why screw with people getting caught with a gram of coke on them etcI thought it was WILD AF when they legalized narcotics there… but the street pharmacists are cutting narcotics with fentanyl since before that.
It’s alarming how many stories I’ve read about people who party recreationally (not your typical drug addict homeless people) and are being found dead because they thought they were doing cocaine and it was fentanyl.
At the time Fentynal had yet exploded into the scourge on city streets it was around but, the "legalization" was voted for and passed by a healthy margin, the thinking being why screw with people getting caught with a gram of coke on them etc
Court and Jail crowding was certainly a part of the calculus.I presumed it was because the courts were so backed up. Most of the misdemeanor crimes we would have been charged with as kids are no longer crimes here. I enjoyed being able to take my dog on the beach more recently…. and watching young people drinking a beer and playing in the water. We would have been ticketed and fines for that before.
I attribute the decline in the traditional American family unit to this current epidemic. Neglect causes complex PTSD. If you don’t treat the underlying PTSD, any injury/pain condition is going to be magnified.