"Clearing out dealers and users would do a lot to impede the market. But the market is also entangled with the built environment of Kensington, from empty buildings and vacant lots to the de facto “supervised” consumption sites that spring up from time to time. Restoring Kensington as a neighborhood means giving its non-drug-selling residents a sense of control over the space. Clearing and greening vacant lots, tearing down empty and condemned houses, increasing street lighting, and ensuring that streets remain clean may all seem like minor details. But the only way to suppress the market is to replace it with something else: a functional neighborhood."
Guess what. In the functional neighborhood known as downtown Portland, Oregon, which has no empty or condemned houses, enjoys abundant street lighting, clean streets and fenced-off vacant lots, the Portland Clinic recently moved out of its fine facility because the City of Portland and the Portland Police Bureau were unable to suppress the nearby open-air drug market. The Clinic's physicians were sent to other locations in the western suburbs, thereby significantly lengthening patients' travel time. I have been a patient of the downtown clinic since the late 70s, so this develoment has me rather annoyed.
Oregonians are paying the hefty price of having been hoodwinked into being guinea pigs for the Drug Policy Alliance's agenda to demolish laws criminalizing drug possession nationwide. Decriminalization was a disaster for the addict community (LOL) and Portland's decent and hard-working voter-taxpayers. Unfortunately, the same bleeding heart mentality that made decriminalization so appealing also made a hash of the policymaking that accompanied the repeal of decriminalization. Oregon's progressive legislators pretended to craft a solution that would ensure those caught in possession of drugs would go to rehab, and drug users pretended to believe it. The fact is that few arrests are being made and even fewer of those arrested are taking the off-ramp to sobriety. Meanwhile millions of dollars are wasted in service of a harm reduction culture that stigmatizes getting clean and abets addiction in the deluded belief that addicts possess both personal autonomy and the wisdom to know when they're ready to quit.
"Clearing out dealers and users would do a lot to impede the market. But the market is also entangled with the built environment of Kensington, from empty buildings and vacant lots to the de facto “supervised” consumption sites that spring up from time to time. Restoring Kensington as a neighborhood means giving its non-drug-selling residents a sense of control over the space. Clearing and greening vacant lots, tearing down empty and condemned houses, increasing street lighting, and ensuring that streets remain clean may all seem like minor details. But the only way to suppress the market is to replace it with something else: a functional neighborhood."
Guess what. In the functional neighborhood known as downtown Portland, Oregon, which has no empty or condemned houses, enjoys abundant street lighting, clean streets and fenced-off vacant lots, the Portland Clinic recently moved out of its fine facility because the City of Portland and the Portland Police Bureau were unable to suppress the nearby open-air drug market. The Clinic's physicians were sent to other locations in the western suburbs, thereby significantly lengthening patients' travel time. I have been a patient of the downtown clinic since the late 70s, so this develoment has me rather annoyed.
Oregonians are paying the hefty price of having been hoodwinked into being guinea pigs for the Drug Policy Alliance's agenda to demolish laws criminalizing drug possession nationwide. Decriminalization was a disaster for the addict community (LOL) and Portland's decent and hard-working voter-taxpayers. Unfortunately, the same bleeding heart mentality that made decriminalization so appealing also made a hash of the policymaking that accompanied the repeal of decriminalization. Oregon's progressive legislators pretended to craft a solution that would ensure those caught in possession of drugs would go to rehab, and drug users pretended to believe it. The fact is that few arrests are being made and even fewer of those arrested are taking the off-ramp to sobriety. Meanwhile millions of dollars are wasted in service of a harm reduction culture that stigmatizes getting clean and abets addiction in the deluded belief that addicts possess both personal autonomy and the wisdom to know when they're ready to quit.
Thanks for the news about season 3 of "Tehran" on Apple TV. It is a terrific series.
Nothing specific yet but can’t wait! This one and Fauda are all timers.