Posted on 11/22/2023 2:37:55 AM PST by Libloather
Three years after Oregon voted to de-criminalize drug offences - residents are now begging to reverse their decision after seeing an astonishing number of deaths from opioid overdoses.
In 2020 - Oregon voters approved a measure to decriminalize the possession of all drugs including heroin and cocaine. The proposal, known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110, passed with 58.8 percent support.
Now residents of the liberal state are crying out to their politicians to do something about the open-air drug markets that their cities have turned into.
Opioid deaths in Oregon have gone up from 280, before the de-criminalization was voted in, to a whopping 955 deaths that were recorded in 2022.
Oregon's opioid-related deaths have more than tripled - while the nationwide reports have doubled, indicating that the West Coast state are facing a far more serious struggle with drugs.
'This breaks my heart,' says Michael Bock - a private security guard in Portland to Fox.
Bock - who has a 'boots on ground' perspective of the crisis in Oregon - claims that people being burdened with addiction are being neglected and being cast to the side.
'We're talking abut the loss of life and we have to do something different this is serious,' Bock said.
The security guard said that he went from carrying out zero drug overdose revivals to reviving many people on a daily basis.
Fox reported that of the 6,000 tickets issued for drug possession since the law went into effect - only 92 have progressed to assessment and connecting those people to services to combat their drug use.
In Eugene, Oregon, calls for overdoses rose to 823 in 2022 from 438 in 2020 - and this year so far has already seen 858 calls in the city.
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It’s almost as if drugs are bad.
Who knew?
“Let them be free to hurt themselves.”
The Democrats/Communists. The party of Death.
The best we can do is be honest about drugs, without holding anything back. If they decided to destroy themselves, let them.
I think it’s terrible, but what can you do with sovereign human beings bent on self destruction?
I see no problem with this. Eliminate narcan use for drug abusers and we can get this number to increase significantly.
“In 2020 - Oregon voters approved a measure to decriminalize the possession of all drugs including heroin and cocaine. The proposal, known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110, passed with 58.8 percent support.”
The reason this was even on the ballot was because the Democrats wanted to increase voter registration and voting of those most likely to vote against Trump... and it worked, bringing out drug addicts, youth, idiots.
Well you have to control the population number in various
ways and this seems to be one of those ways. Maybe the USA
could go into a ‘birth sterilization’ method so future births
could be reduced. Reckon that would help any?
“The party of Death”
No joke. ODs, abortion, and euthanasia.
They build nothing and erode everything.
Decriminalization is a prescription for anarchy. The real issue is that voters deluded themselves into believing that drug users could be diverted from jail and saved with treatment. The increase in ODs are not surprising, but where’s the outrage about the crime that supports drug use?
They say it like it’s a bad thing.
It’s almost as if they legalize dangerous substance to thin the population of certain people…hmmmm
Apparently no liberal folk in Oregon have mourned these deaths, as there is no effort or initiative to repeal the decriminalization of these hard drugs.
All part of the larger objective of depopulating the planet, by the self-induced elimination of these poor souls from this mortal coil.
” If they decided to destroy themselves, let them. - - - - but what can you do with sovereign human beings bent on self destruction?”
Just one lone individual bent on self destruction, oh well, that’s too bad.
But when a state votes for it, these self destructive jerks are taking many good people with them. You gotta consider all the crime they commit before they whack themselves.
The left knows full well what they are doing by legalizing drugs. It’s just one more scheme used to destroy our culture so communism can be brought in to restore order, something the people will be begging for.
“Liberals: America’s Termites”
In paperback at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Liberals-Americas-Termites-Unlike-Hamsters/dp/0974673218
That 955 junkies that won’t be assaulting people, robbing people, stealing stuff, wasting medical (ER) resources and. cluttering up the streets with feces and used needles. Where’s the downside?
Correct 955 less
I’m making a serious effort to feel bad about this....honest
Oregon voters asked for it, and they got it.
Those folks don’t see a problem with tearing an unborn child into pieces and then ripping it from its mother’s womb.
They voted to make assisted suicide legal.
It seems a bit ironic that they would have a problem with junkies doing junkie things.
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