Jason Rantz: Sharing Seattle's drug-policy pain – this legalization plan will hurt Washington state, nation

Seattle’s permissive drug policies ravaged the city and devastated an already vulnerable homeless population. It led to more crime and killed an alarming number of people. But now it may go statewide if Democrats get their way.

On the heels of Oregon’s voter-approved decriminalization law, Washington may one-up its neighbors with radical legislation that effectively legalizes all drugs that will fundamentally alter the entire state.  For a bill ostensibly about treatment, it lacks concrete details to treat addicts. The Pathways to Recovery Act is pitched as a way to help addicts. But it will do the opposite; it will kill them. What’s worse, while it focuses almost exclusively on the addict, it ignores the impacts drug culture has on our communities.