Governor makes hard drugs illegal again in complete U-turn of liberal policy

[rangerrebew]

 
Governor makes hard drugs illegal again in complete U-turn of liberal policy
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Oregon has reversed its 2020 policy decriminalizing small amounts of drugs after overdoses and addiction sharply increased.

A new law signed by the Democratic governor makes drug possession a misdemeanor again and allows police to confiscate drugs.

It aims to divert people to treatment instead of jail.


The initial 2020 measure was passed by voters but later disapproved as fentanyl crisis grew.

“Republicans stood united and forced Democrats to do what Oregonians demanded: recriminalize drugs,” Oregon House Republican Leader Jeff Helfrich said.

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[rangerrebew]

Surely democrats blamed global warming for all the problems they experienced with junkies.

[LMAO]

Idealism versus reality

I understand that there’s a lot of controversy surrounding the drug war. But obviously, this wasn’t the solution

[The_Reader_David]

The thing is, they never actually legalized them.  They decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs, which has most of the downsides of legalization (less restraint on users) and most of the downsides of keeping them illegal (trade still in the hands of criminal gangs with no quality control, which is a major contributing factor to overdose deaths, and the cause of most drug-related crime even excluding the illegality of possession with intent to sell).