Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Law enforcement says decriminalization has flooded Portland streets with drugs" video.

  1. Don't de-criminalize it. Legalize, license and TAX it. Strictly enforce laws protecting persons, property, and public health and safety, including vagrancy ordinances. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." You can't just let people set up housekeeping on public property. I don't see a problem. The city should invest in local micro-farming. Folks talk about the great re-set, but that's something we could do. We've come a long way in small-plot farming technology, and we can produce restaurant-grade veggies for everyone, locally. It's good to know we CAN ship food anywhere we want, in enormous quantities and good quality, but day-to-day, even if gas prices go back to $2 a gallon, local farms can compete with factory farms far away, because of quality, reliability, virtue-signaling, fuel savings advantages. Why not a synthesis of the two problems into a nice, self-sustaining solution that different towns and cities can experiment with. By experiment, I mean, people deciding they like the small-plot farming life, especially while they're raising their kids. Teach them a love of reading and home-school 'em. Online learning management systems can teach most of most subjects a lot cheaper, and at the pace of the learner. I'd hazard that 70% or more of kids would learn faster than the school curriculum. Socialization? Give them more time and more things to do with their friends withOUT a government employee watching them.
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