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Nobody could have predicted this!
State Officials Admit Drug Decriminalization Has Been a Massive Failure: 'We Have Overdoses Increasing at Drastic Rates'
A 2020 ballot measure that decriminalized drug use has failed in its purpose of improving lives, Oregon state officials were told this week.
Oregon’s House Committee on Behavior Health was told in testimony that the law has not done what it claimed it would do, according to the
Washington Examiner.
“When the voters of Oregon passed Measure 110, we did so because it was a change of policy in Oregon to improve the lives of people, to improve our communities,” Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said.
“And in the years since, we haven’t seen that play out. Instead … we’ve seen the problem with drug addiction get worse.”
Republican state Rep. Lily Morgan of Grants Pass said the death toll is rising, not falling, according to
The Associated Press.
“Director, you’ve mentioned a couple of times that you’re waiting to see, and yet we have
overdoses increasing at drastic rates, in my community a 700% increase in overdoses and a 120% increase in deaths,” Morgan said to state Behavioral Health Director Steve Allen, who leads the program.
“How long do we wait before we have an impact that we’re saving lives?”
An Oregon effort to decriminalize drug possession has shown little in the way of positive results, officials say.
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