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‘Out Of Control’: Oregon Decriminalized Drugs — Now It’s Having Second Thoughts
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION
Brandon Poulter
Contributor
December 03, 2023 11:00 AM ET
Oregon residents voted in 2020 to decriminalize drugs, but just three years later many businesses, citizens and lawmakers are having second thoughts amid a spike in overdose deaths and drug use.
More than 60% of Oregon voters polled think that Measure 110, which decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs in November 2020, “has made drug addiction, homelessness, and crime worse,” according to DHM Research, and 56% of Oregon voters polled believe that the measure should be repealed entirely, according to an Emerson College poll. A coalition of cities, police groups, and prosecutors called on the state to recriminalize drug possession, and businesses who spoke to the DCNF say they’re struggling with the drug crisis in the state. (RELATED: Blue City Mayor Who Oversaw A Year Of Antifa Riots, Rising Crime Won’t Seek Reelection)
“This has really spread across Oregon. It’s not just a Portland problem,” Oregon House Republican Leader Jeff Helfrich, a former Portland police office, told the DCNF. “It’s just out of control, I’ve never seen it this bad.”
Drug overdoses surged in Oregon between 2020 and 2022, and nearly 3% of Portland residents left the city in the same time frame. Over 600 people died of overdoses in 2019 in Oregon, and that number nearly doubled to 1,200 in 2022.
“The Republicans have a solution offered but there hasn’t been any talk about it because it doesn’t seem like there’s the will or the votes on the Democratic side,” Helfrich told the DCNF.
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READ MORE: https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/03/oregon-decriminalized-drugs-tina-kotek-oregon/
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