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Oregon Taps Out of Drug Decriminalization: Three Years after Voting to Make Drug Use Legal, the State Has Reversed Course

Ari Blaff : Apr 26, 2024  The Dispatch

[TheDispatch.com] ...The measure decriminalizing even fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine possession passed with nearly 60 percent of the vote and went into effect in February 2021 ... Three years into Oregon's experiment with drug decriminalization, the state is reversing course. After seeing increasing overdose deaths, rampant homelessness, and open-air drug dens, state legislators swiftly passed a bipartisan overhaul of Measure 110 in under a month this year, reinstituting penalties for possession of hard drugs. Oregon's Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek signed it into law on April 1, and it will take effect September 1. "Oregon is a lesson in what not to do," [Kristin] Olson [a Portland, Oregon, attorney] said. "I think that most states understand this, and they probably understood it long ago, which is why Oregon is the only state to have engaged in this fatal experiment"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Sav Says /YouTube)







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