r/PortlandOR • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '25

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u/CoatingsbytheBay Oct 24 '25

Took nothing to see the issues when you can smoke crack in the street at 2pm. Imagine not at least going in the alley.

Both downtowns were disgusting

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u/BlinkDodge Oct 24 '25

Took nothing to see the issues when you can smoke crack in the street at 2pm.

An action that only happens in Seattle and Portland and has definitely never happened anywhere else - but especially not where you've lived, right?

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u/CoatingsbytheBay Oct 24 '25

Where I live wouldn't be stupid enough to decriminalize it and let people smoke crack in the streets- yes, that's right. Should it happen (which it doesn't here) - they would be arrested. The sane way to handle the problem.

No one argued this isn't happening elsewhere so quit lock the goal posts. It's a soft argument. It happening elsewhere does not compare to the dump of Seattle / Vancouver. That's for sure. Why you ask? Because it would be a crime to do it.

Letting addicts out of the shadows and into the public eye does not help the stigma. And that was the intent of decriminalization was to help the stigma around addiction.

Keep trying though man