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Should OR decriminalize drug possession & hike treatment funding?
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854 Votes

Should OR decriminalize drug possession & hike treatment funding?

Yes

10

No

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Yes

7 Comments
Brittney Mills Wiese
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Brittney Mills Wiese

Decriminalization does not mean legal. If this happens there will still be consequences for worse offenses but also more treatment opportunities expanding the opportunity for successful sobriety.

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Judy Ostrom-Dixon
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Judy Ostrom-Dixon

Only if a treatment bed is available anytime one calls for one I am all for it!

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Mia Randazzo
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Mia Randazzo

If you look at other countries that have done this, like Portugal, you’ll see that it has lowered overall drug use, deaths and addiction. It WORKS!!

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Richard Dillard
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Richard Dillard

It is stupid to continue to fight a loosing battle.

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Joseph Hemrick III
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Joseph Hemrick III

Its time we stop wasting tax payer dollars on a failed 'drug war.' Treatment for addiction is better than jailing them.

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Jim Latham
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Jim Latham

Just say no has not worked. Portugal has legalized all drugs and the crime rate in the country has dropped dramatically. They have used the money they have saved for treatment programs.

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k san
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k san

As a veteran federal law enforcement officer for 22 years, I can tell you that incarceration for mere drug 'possession' (not dealing) is way harsh & doesn't work. Definitely increase trtmt funding.

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No

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robert shaw
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robert shaw

Hmmm, let's make Oregon the drug cartel of the U.S..

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Tom Hamper
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Tom Hamper

I can't believe you could even dream up that question. Absurd!!!

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Teresa Raymond Tieben
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Teresa Raymond Tieben

Crime would rise tremendously!

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Steven Huillet
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Steven Huillet

I would be Stupid to decriminalize Drugs! We need stiffer sentencing. Quite letting them off easy. We should bring back prison work crews like the chain gangs of old. They would think twice about it!

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Nicholas Hagedorn
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Nicholas Hagedorn

The majority of crime investigated by law enforcement is a result of drug use, such as assaults, theft, burglary, etc. In addition, there is already drug treatment available to those who truly want it

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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool
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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

There should be more emphasis on treatment, but it should still be a crime. Serve your time in jail then go to rehab.

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Robert Northrup
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Robert Northrup

Decriminalization would be like refusing to give vaccines in an epidemic and only treating the ill. The health system would be overwhelmed. And that is where we are with drug addiction.

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k san
k san

Analogy makes no sense.

Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland

Hell no!!! That's like telling them it's ok to do drugs. This state is going to shit if this is even up for debate!

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Valerie Rhodes Kifer
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Valerie Rhodes Kifer

Decriminalizing just increases drug use. Look at the mess in California!

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k san
k san

Statistics beg to differ.

Mou Chat Reed
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Mou Chat Reed

Good grief!! NO!! What is Oregon turning into ????

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k san
k san

OR has always been a liberal state. Where have you been?

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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179 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

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YES

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NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,338 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
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Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
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Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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