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One of the hardest most damaging drugs there is, alcohol, is legal and allowed in public and semi-public private property in all 50 states. Drinking solvents is not really much of a step above huffing them yet we as a society tolerate it. And that's good. Because it's their body and their choice.

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Not really. Open use isn’t allowed in Portland.

Due to a quirk in state law, Portland can enforce a prohibition on drinking in public (outside of OLCC regulated establishments) but cannot enforce a prohibition on smoking or shooting up meth or fentanyl in public.

no it's not. Very few public places in the US allow alcohol consumption.

I think we need to define public a bit more. In, say, a baseball stadium you're in public, right? And you can drink alcohol.

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