– Oregon Reverses Liberal Drug Law After “Losing A Generation” To Addiction:
Oregon has reversed a former liberal drug law, but not in time to avoid losing “a generation” of people to addiction.
In fact, the state’s decision to recriminalize drugs is just the first of many needed actions, says State House Republican leader Jeff Helfrich. The new law, reversing the 2020 decriminalization, took effect Sunday, according to the NY Post and Fox News.
The new law, HB 4002, introduces stricter penalties for selling drugs in public and classifies personal drug possession as a misdemeanor. Addiction and drug-related deaths surged after Oregon’s 2020 decriminalization, which was approved by 58% of voters.
Helfrich said on Fox this week: “You saw overdose deaths, you saw drug usage on the street, crime, homelessness all soared after Democrats put this policy in place. And they could have stopped it, but they didn’t.”
“Unfortunately, because we decriminalized it for those few years, we’ve lost a generation, I believe, of people because of these drugs. And you don’t get to have those times anymore,” he continued.
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