Oregon Re-Criminalizes Drug Posession

[JGalt]

Well there went went the idea of "If we only made drugs legal there wouldn't be any addicts." In 2021, Oregon decriminalized hard drugs including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Apparently that didn't work out too well.

Oregon governor to sign bill re-criminalizing possession of certain drugs into law​

"Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek will sign new legislation that makes possession of a small amount of drugs such as fentanyl and heroin a misdemeanor in the state, moving to recriminalize such substances roughly three years after the state became the first in the nation to decriminalize the possession and personal use of all drugs, according to a statement from the Democratic governor.

House Bill 4002 reverses portions of Measure 110, a 2020 voter ballot initiative that relaxed certain penalties for drug possession. The new bill overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of the state legislature with bipartisan support late last week."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/politics/oregon-drug-laws-recriminalization/index.html

 

[Woodznutz]

"The horses are gone, quick, shut the barn doors."

 

[martybegan]

Well there went went the idea of "If we only made drugs legal there wouldn't be any addicts." In 2021, Oregon decriminalized hard drugs including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Apparently that didn't work out too well.

Oregon governor to sign bill re-criminalizing possession of certain drugs into law​

"Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek will sign new legislation that makes possession of a small amount of drugs such as fentanyl and heroin a misdemeanor in the state, moving to recriminalize such substances roughly three years after the state became the first in the nation to decriminalize the possession and personal use of all drugs, according to a statement from the Democratic governor.

House Bill 4002 reverses portions of Measure 110, a 2020 voter ballot initiative that relaxed certain penalties for drug possession. The new bill overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of the state legislature with bipartisan support late last week."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/politics/oregon-drug-laws-recriminalization/index.html

You mean the people with a disposition fo behaving bad didn't stop behaving bad when behaving bad was made no longer bad?

 

[Meister]

Legal hard drugs was way out of control in Oregon. Death rates and crime up because of it.
Glad they weren't so far over the cliff that they pulled it back.
California wouldn't have done what Oregon did with criminalizing it again.