Oregon lawmakers decide to recriminalize
hard drugs after overdose deaths soared 190%
Biz Pac Review,
by
Vivek Saxena
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
3/2/2024 11:11:01 PM
Oregon has reportedly voted to reverse its hard drug decriminalization because of the overdose epidemic now affecting the state.
In 2020, almost 60 percent of Oregon voters approved Measure 110, which decriminalized the possession of relatively small amounts of hard drugs, including heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.
The measure predictably led to Oregon becoming a den of drug addicts and drug overdoses.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 3/2/2024 11:18:30 PM (No. 1669229)
Show me any liberal social policy that does not implode in a matter of months or years.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/2/2024 11:40:22 PM (No. 1669236)
Better late than never, but these people are stunningly stupid and unable to grasp the blindingly obvious way this was CERTAIN to turnnout.
But they are leftists and to be a leftist it is necessary to, like thr Red Queen, " believe in multiple impossible things before breakfast each day."
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Okay to carry "small amounts" of fentanyl around. Does no one ever stop to size up the handbasket we're living in?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/3/2024 12:11:19 AM (No. 1669253)
It's too little too late. Apparently the law doesn't go very far down the road of reversing Measure 110.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/3/2024 12:51:56 AM (No. 1669261)
This is why demonrats are severely stupid. They never ever think of the consequences of their actions.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Miss T 3/3/2024 1:58:42 AM (No. 1669272)
The beautiful Pacific Northwest has been overcome with the invidious "harm reduction" model: "Do not label them as abusers, let them use while we offer them treatment options." In my opinion, letting these drug users continue to use, without legal consequences, is allowing them to enslave themselves to the drugs. It is not humane.
Let's see how far Portland gets with this.
Oh, once more: Portland, Oregon, is not the only Portland in the USA. There are 30-some places so-named. Good reportage specifies the exact location.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/3/2024 2:42:46 AM (No. 1669277)
When you sanction depravity you get a whole lot of depravity. Oregon is just now finding that out. You would think they should know that, but obviously Oregon had its head up its rectum.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 3/3/2024 4:36:57 AM (No. 1669292)
The blue states should hold a Most Stupid State contest every year.
Have a final four playoff and an awards ceremony on TV, complete with stupid celebrities.
The sheeple will love it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/3/2024 4:50:11 AM (No. 1669299)
Dems have no clue about the Law of Consequences. They do not know what the Bible and history taught about foolhardy policies. They learn only the hard way what happens when they “____” around and find out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/3/2024 5:07:47 AM (No. 1669305)
Oh my: Who would have known that would happen.
Just about anyone with a working brain.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/3/2024 5:21:58 AM (No. 1669314)
At least they have the sense the correct their mistakes. After how many deaths? I don't know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 3/3/2024 6:24:41 AM (No. 1669334)
Leave the law in place. My daddy used to call this, "Culling the herd."
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Are they worried that their voters are dying off, and half of their state wants to be annexed into Idaho?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/3/2024 7:16:03 AM (No. 1669355)
They may be gullible enough to believe everything the soros bucks say, and they may be stupid to believe it, but they are smart enough to see corpses piling up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 3/3/2024 7:59:13 AM (No. 1669380)
So the libertarian/leftist policy fell on its face?
Drug use never affects just the individual user.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/3/2024 8:08:03 AM (No. 1669385)
"Drug overdoses" are none of the government's business.
Family and friends may mourn the deaths of self-destructive individuals - - but the government shouldn't be in the bereavement business. Anyone who is dumb enough to intentionally ingest narcotic drugs - - should face the consequences on their own - - without the government forcing everyone else to pay the tab.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TCloud 3/3/2024 8:37:26 AM (No. 1669397)
Too smart and full of f*r*!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/3/2024 9:29:15 AM (No. 1669429)
I love the sound of libs going in full reverse after hitting an iceberg. In the case of fentanyl, maybe enough leftist dolts have offed themselves that those with a little bit of sense are now in the majority, we can hope.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 3/3/2024 9:37:17 AM (No. 1669432)
Southern Oregon said no, stop. Foolish; but the three metropolis counties that sponsored and passed this lemming heresy forgot that this would land in their own back yard. So they just took the supposed “will of the Oregon people” and the liberal legislators annex this dumpster fire piece of legislation because they have ruined their own neighborhoods. Meanwhile southern Oregon laughs and dreams of the great state of Jefferson, some day.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/3/2024 9:40:05 AM (No. 1669436)
They don't care if they're addicted and living on the street, only that they died? I guess they didn't have a big enough line item in the budget for burial services for dead druggies?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/3/2024 9:53:33 AM (No. 1669444)
Will be sure to watch GUTFELD! this week. A couple of libertarians on that show who are for the legalization of all drugs. Wonder if they have the guts to admit they're wrong.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Krause 3/3/2024 10:06:46 AM (No. 1669450)
Just more proof of how stupid the whole left is. There is no intelligence there.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/3/2024 10:47:40 AM (No. 1669474)
To some degree, living in an allegedly free land gives one the legal if not moral right to destroy himself with food, drink, cigarettes, or running one's head into a rock wall chi kung style like a Chinese master (there really is a guy who has been doing that all his life). People make choices. All the above activities are, and should be, legal. When formerly illegal activities that are deadly get outlawed again in Oregon, is that because Democrat lawmakers truly care about those who ODed, or do they just want an issue to gripe about? It's the latter. They don't care about Americans, and want us replaced. Why don't they just shut up? Tired of 'em. (Is #21 referring to libertarian Kat Timpf?)
Now creative druggies have found ways to get high with things like bath salts. (Don't ask me how.) A long time ago close friend of mine was in a treatment facility with a variety of alcoholics and drug addicts, and one of the fellows in the group started blubbering about being completely out of control on bath salts. Before the moderator could react, my friend said, "Why don't you grow up and do some real drugs?" Moderator was not pleased, but Bath Salts Boy asked for it.
I'm libertarian, but am I this amount of libertarian, so much that I would legalize fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, etc.? I would not give Oregon lawmakers the benefit of the doubt on their intentions when they legalized everything and now seek to roll it back. Americans are whispering that they're insane up in Duckland, and perhaps they are. Maybe they still have a sense of enbarrassment. In golf parlance, they hit their opening tee shot far out of bounds, and want a mulligan.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/3/2024 10:51:04 AM (No. 1669478)
Awww.... now the big Pharma drug companies will lose some revenue...follow the money folks.....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 3/3/2024 11:07:02 AM (No. 1669487)
I suppose this will bring back all the drug users who died. There must be something in the water on the West Coast because their glorious leaders have become, incompetent, stupid and possibly evil.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/3/2024 11:34:05 AM (No. 1669511)
Another Leftist Genius move. Lets legalize all things bad, what could possibly to WORNG?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/3/2024 11:44:17 AM (No. 1669523)
18,874 - The number of firearm deaths, excluding suicides, in 2023
112,000+ - The number of overdose deaths in 2023
And yet many argue we should make drugs legal while they scream at the top of their lungs about the danger of scary guns.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 3/3/2024 11:57:36 AM (No. 1669538)
Well duh! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this out! Calling Dr. Ben Carson (a real brain surgeon.)
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
daisey 3/3/2024 1:37:37 PM (No. 1669636)
Wonder what the price in lives lost was due to their stupidity and liberal ideology? Democrats are definitely the party of death and destruction.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/3/2024 1:52:06 PM (No. 1669646)
Please don't get rid of this policy we are getting rid drug addicts by the score, that's a good thing.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Jackie 3/3/2024 9:58:52 PM (No. 1669869)
"because of the overdose epidemic now affecting the state. " oh my, say it isn't so...who would have thunk it! Good look cleaning up the hellish mess ..Oregon is a doomed Dem hellhole. Can't say they weren't warned.
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