Down and out-for-the-count: Pictures of drug addicts passed out all over Portland show how its decriminalization program has backfired - with officials now proposing Japanese-style 'coffin homes' for the destitute
New photos show the current situation in Portland that resembles an 'open air drug market'
Homelessness and drug use continue to increase more than a year after Ballot Measure 110 passed
Overdose deaths in the state hit an all-time high in 2021 with 1069, a 41 percent increase from 2020
Now, Leslie Wright Oregon City mayoral candidate, wants to house homeless people in vacant schools by using them as shelters in small compact areas, like 'the Japanese people'
'We're gonna take each one of those (homeless) people and give them their own little area and give them an address,' he said, referencing 'small, compact' areas like 'how the Japanese people live'
Wright's comments come as nearby Portland has become an 'open air drug market' and overdoses skyrocket
Oregon was the first state in the United States to decriminalize possession of personal-use amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone
By Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com
Published: 11:28 EDT, 20 June 2022 | Updated: 13:39 EDT, 20 June 2022
Portland's open-air drug market is laid bare as people smoke heroin on the streets and needles litter the sidewalks as city officials start homeless sweeps while a nearby city's mayoral candidate 'wants to round them up and use 'Japanese-style pods' to house them.
New photos taken by DailyMail.com show the current situation in Portland, a city that has been plagued with homelessness and addicts openly using drugs in broad daylight. Users were seen injecting themselves, slumping over in a semi-comatose state.
Discarded needles, human waste and the smell of urine adds another layer of tarnish to city's progressive policies - one of them being the Ballot Measure 110 decision, which has decriminalized hard drugs in the Democrat-run state.
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