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Joshua Marquis's avatar

Measure 110 may be one of the worst disasters in recent political history. Of course the DC-based Drug Policy Alliance outspent those of us opposed this about 50 to 1, but the whole initiative was a fraud. It functionally legalized meth, cocaine, and oxycodone and by extension also legalized heroin and fentanyl (the latter two are technically not covered, but are impossible to detect apart from lab testing).

The so-called "oversight" board is a hand-picked group of pro-drug groupies, notably including the very articulate Megan Godvin, who did federal prison time for providing a fatal dose of heroin to a pal.

Oregon already has the worst overdose rate in the nation and the lowest availability of meaningful recovery programs.

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Larry's avatar

How have these people and advocacy groups become legitimized? Perhaps the same way that OPB/NPR/PBS remain legitimized?

I've just cut/pasted/and googled the beneficiaries names and their outfits. Yikes! doesn't quite catch the impact they made upon me. I had hopes with Brittiny Rain as it conjured a French Lieutenant's Woman vision Of Lyme Regis or Polansky's Tess, all North Atlantic afflicted stormy beauty. But, no.

By that time in my reading the moniker Blue Valentine called forth a Lynchian literalist image of Harry Lime, all fruit with mildewed fur. Val did kind of fill out that expectation

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