{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "How do you feel about the drug possession decriminalization?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/633898114272641024/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>How do you feel about the drug possession decriminalization?</p></div>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s had background meth or heroin problems since the 90s at least and criminalization didn&rsquo;t particularly seem to <i>fix</i> them, the argument that the ability of courts to order people through treatment programs or serve as someone&rsquo;s rock bottom isn&rsquo;t worth the way it distorts things is worth entertaining, though I wonder if any &ldquo;lessons from Oregon&rdquo; will be distorted such that we have visible enough methhead and junkie communities that the backpressure on those drugs was less the specter of The Law than &ldquo;ew, I don&rsquo;t wanna be <i>that</i>&rdquo;, anyway</p><p>Selfishly, I hope this somehow leads to a MDMA boom that brings back what I hear used to be a decent happy hardcore rave scene in Eugene</p>"}