My take on this: She has no right to. That was a ballot measure, not a law passed by the Oregon legislature. If they want it repealed, send it back to ballot. Ballot measures are a check and balance on the power of the legislature, they are worthless if the legislature can just reverse them. Suggesting they have the power to do so should be a career-ending event for any elected representative.
I look forward to voting against you in the primaries Kotek.
There have been a couple of sophisticated studies done that show that decriminalization had nothing to do with the increase in overdose, crime or drug use. It just happened at the same time that fentanyl hit the streets in Oregon. The public doesn’t seem to know that, or care. They just want politicians to do SOMETHING about it. This is an easy thing to do.
Do you have links? Again, I realize this is a nuanced situation but imo not one that I think is solved solely through compassion alone. I’m happy to be proven wrong but efforts so far haven’t produced results and the city has continued to move further down the path of increased homelessness, drug addiction, and overall dirty state. Non-homeless citizens should be able to make use of a clean and safe city as well.
I’ll let you Google, but here’s one example.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2809867#:~:text=Results Following the implementation of,per 100 000 state population.
Thanks for the link. For future reference, making a claim and then saying “do your own research” is a republican tactic. I’m glad you included the reference link in that comment though.