[ProtectOurFreedom]

All that dope is flowing in from China via Mexico over the non-existent border, the one that Biden and Mayorkas erased. American lives don’t mean a thing to them.

[Stosh]

A liberal social experiment with tragic unintended consequences? Who could have possibly predicted that would happen!

[gov_bean_ counter]

A real shame nobody saw this coming. (Eye roll)

[antidemoncrat]

Just another branch of the Democrat’s government displaying it’s total inability to govern. The only real ability they have is to blame someone else for their failure or ask for more tax payer money to “fix” the problem.

[OttawaFreeper]

If drugs were to be decriminalized and legal gambling increased, then things like welfare and socialized medicine and other government handouts for the most part should have been abolished.

[metmom]

Democrats are such idiots.

[blackdog]

That’s another way to dodge your $300K in student loans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Has anybody told the idiots in Oregon about this?

[mmichaels1970]

shifted focus to addiction and recovery, with police issuing citations for public drug use

The "citation" provides absolutely NO incentive for the person to WANT to recover from addiction. Instead, it enables them to continue their addiction. There are endless resources providing food, shelter, clothing and care for addicts who then are free to focus on the sole pursuit of scoring drugs. Every time I see somebody drop a dollar into the bucket of an "exit ramp" beggar, I see somebody basically buying drugs for an addict.

Our society has lost the will to FORCE addicts to recover. With FORCE meaning prison, monitored probation, involuntary mental health commitments, etc. We use the term "compassion" when it actually means "enabling".

Rampant drug abuse is like a large black cancer just decimating this country. I think we're screwed.

[aquila48]

“Despite hopes that a more compassionate approach would address addiction, the reality has been starkly different.”

There is no greater destroyer of society than what I call, “pathological compassion”. The type of feel good “compassion” that ruins the receiver, the giver and society in general.

This is a great example of it.

[bk1000]

Hand it out by the scoop full for all I care. China will send as much as we need. People know a very small amount of that poison will kill you, full stop, but they’ll do it anyway. Once stupidity was outlawed, society ceased evolving.

[Vaduz]

Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Experiment Takes a Dark Turn.

How many what the hell were you thinking questions do the need before the have an answer.

[jagusafr]

Gee, who’da thunk? /s

[Twotone]

If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[JimRed]

“Accidental” fentanyl overdose deaths are the fault of those who CHOOSE to ABUSE. They must have a death wish.

[logi_cal869]

Remember: That ballot measure was voted in by 58% of mail-in ballots...

[MinorityRepublican]

Eastern Oregon needs to secede from People’s Republic of Portland.