Oregon Moves to Reintroduce Penalties for Drug Possession After Catastrophic Years-Long Junkie Utopia Experiment

Elvis Dunderhoff March 3, 2024

Well, that escalated quickly.

I guess we’re just going to cancel the utopia?

How can you have a utopia that arrests people simply for living on the streets in tents and shooting up fentanyl in front of children?

It’s fascism.

The Guardian:

Oregon lawmakers have moved to reintroduce criminal penalties for the possession of hard drugs, in effect ending the stateโ€™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.

The Oregon house approved the $211m bill earlier this week, followed by the state senate, which voted to approve the measure on Friday. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Tina Kotek, who said in January that she is open to signing a bill that would roll back decriminalization, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

The measure makes the possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail. It enables police to confiscate the drugs and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks. Drug treatment is to be offered as an alternative to criminal penalties.

The measure passed despite concerns that it would create more suffering and disproportionately harm people of color. Research by the state has found that the changes would disproportionately affect Black and Latino people.

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Oregon has seen a 1,500% rise in overdose deaths since the pandemic started, the steepest increase in the country, according to recent federal data. In 2022, almost 1,000 people in the state died from opiate overdoses. But research has so far showed no correlation between the rise in overdoses and decriminalization.

This is probably a much more relevant story than it seems.

If people in Oregon are tired of the utopia, then basically everyone is.

This is a historical step in rolling back the utopia, and returning to a society of rules.

I don’t think it will work. Everything is too far gone. But it demonstrates that the population has democracy fatigue and is ready to surrender values and principles just to have some kind of peace and normalcy in their lives.

They should have thought of this sooner.

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