from WND:
Soros-backed measure yields tragic harvest of human misery
Oregon’s drug decriminalization Ballot Measure 110, passed overwhelmingly by the Democrat-dominated state’s voters in 2020, is proving to be a colossal failure – with drug overdoses skyrocketing as police are left with little leverage to punish offenders, according to a July 19 article in the left-biased Atlantic magazine.
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“Early results of this reform effort, the first of its kind in any state, are now coming into view, and so far, they are not encouraging. … Oregon’s drug problems have not improved,” reports Atlantic writer Jim Hinch in the article headlined “What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs.” “Last year, the state experienced one of the sharpest rises in overdose deaths in the nation and had one of the highest percentages of adults with a substance-use disorder. During one two-week period last month, three children under the age of 4 overdosed in Portland after ingesting fentanyl.”
The George Soros-backed ballot measure, called the “Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative,” downgraded the penalty for possessing small amounts of a “controlled substance” – even hard drugs like heroin – to the equivalent of a $100 traffic ticket, and even that can be waived.
It also uses revenue from pot sales in the state (Oregon legalized recreational marijuana in 2015) to fund an expanding network of drug-treatment centers for addicts (though they are now called “users”). However, as the Atlantic article reveals, that grant program has been riddled with inefficiencies and abuses typical of other government handout programs over the decades.
“Earlier this year, Portland business owners appeared before the Multnomah County Commission to ask for help with crime, drug-dealing, and other problems stemming from a behavioral-health resource center operated by a harm-reduction nonprofit that was awarded more than $4 million in Measure 110 funding,” the Atlantic reports. “In April, the center abruptly closed following employee complaints that clients were covering walls with graffiti and overdosing on-site. A subsequent investigation by the nonprofit found that a security contractor had been using cocaine on the job.”
