The old Prohibition joke is that the United States outlawed alcohol right when people needed a drink the most. Its an ironic joke considering the last thing anybody needs when theyre going through a crisis of Depression is an addictive substance that alters your mental state. Fast forward to 2020, when the state of Oregon repealed another prohibition of illicit drugs nearly 100 years later. Nine months into the pandemic, with its Measure 110, Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize the possession of drugs such as methamphetamines, heroin, LSD, Oxycodone, MDMA, Methadone, and Psilocobyn. Individuals caught with such drugs are now given a small fine and referred to drug addiction services rather than charged. The theory behind the effort to decriminalize drugs is that it is the legal consequences of using drugs, not the drugs themselves, that ruin peoples lives. On the one-year anniversary of Measure 110,...