Measure 110, an experiment approved in 2020, gets overhauled as state grapples with fentanyl crisis and growing public drug use
Oregon lawmakers have moved to reintroduce criminal penalties for the possession of hard drugs, in effect ending the state’s groundbreaking three-year decriminalization experiment.
In 2020, nearly 60% of voters moved to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs with the passage of Measure 110, but the new law had grown increasingly controversial as the state grappled with the fentanyl crisis and growing public drug use.
Lawmakers had recently reached a bipartisan deal to undo a key aspect of the law and make minor possession a misdemeanor, while also allocating millions of dollars toward specialty court programs as well as mental health and addiction treatment.
Get a few people together and start raising hell at city council. I’m doing it. Together we can all demand better cities.
I wish that would work but not in a real city it would take a few thousand with pitchforks and mortars basically killing everyone and everything.
So you going full Detroit or Cleveland both cities I love and love to visit but would not live there
Well, you could always just wait and see if things get better, but it doesn’t seem to be working.
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