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The state of Oregon’s failed experiment to decriminalize hard drugs comes to an official end on Sunday, and data from the state’s judicial department reveals just how disastrous and ineffective Measure 110 was. Only 85 people issued citations sought addiction assessment during the three years of decriminalization, and thousands died from overdoses, data shows.
Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize possession of illicit drugs – such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and LSD – when voters approved Ballot Measure 110 in Nov. 2020. The law took effect on Feb. 1, 2021, turning possession of hard drugs from a criminal misdemeanor into a Class E misdemeanor, which warrants a citation of up to $100. The punishment could be compared to receiving a traffic ticket.
Measure 110 citations had granted those in possession of illegal drugs two options: pay a $100 fine through the court system or call a substance abuse helpline in exchange for their citation being waived. Progressive lawmakers intended to use cannabis tax income to fund the state’s treatment system to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, but data shows hardly anyone paid the fine or called the helpline. read more
There’s a PSA campaign here in Vegas:
“I carry Naloxone for my neighbors”
“I carry Naloxone for …”
You see, it’s OUR fucking responsibility to carry around an expensive drug to inject in some lowlife who has just overdose on some illicit drug.
We need to save their fucking lives from themselves.
Oh and, yes, taxpayers are paying for these ads.
Fuck these liberal bastards.
I keep waiting for “I carry adult diapers for my neighbors”
Sigh*
“….thousands died of overdose.”
That’s one way to clean the gene pool.
Liberals never admit to their mistakes, therefore, it must be part of their overall plan.
…OTOH, it got REAL easy to get free Narcan, so theres that…
Not to be argumentative, but “decriminalizing” possession is a FAR CRY from allowing a legal market in honest, reputable businesses to manufacture and sell quality-controlled, purity-controlled, etc. drugs that people wish to purchase. All they technically did was stop going after the criminal cartels that constantly prey on people, while NOT allowing legitimate pharmaceutical companies and laboratories to manufacture quality-controlled products for people to purchase voluntarily as they desired. This is most certainly NOT a failure of “drug legalization” or any sort of “free market.” Don’t pretend it is. And YES, even in a marketplace of reputable businesses, some will overdose. You either own you own body and can put into it what YOU wish, or you are the property of the state (ie – a SLAVE).
^^^^ Well said.
Clearly most Oregon voters don’t understand how drug out city suckers.
The money they have to scrounge for their drugs ain’t going to no hundred dollar fine.
Under my plan, they would all be shipped to a desert island with rice, beans and water, and all the drugs they wanted.
They don’t care about you and they don’t care about themselves. Please tell me how else do you fix that?
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Drugged out city suckers.
The world would be a better place if they built Berlin walls around Portland and Salem.
“….thousands died of overdose.”
That was the idea all along.
Brilliant idea, Mr Liberty; it worked out so well in “Brave New World”
“..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon…”
ore-gone clowns, keep up the woketard bullshit. any real humans are leaving your state while they can