In November 2020, the citizens of Oregon passed Measure 110 which essentially decriminalized the possession of hard drugs such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin for personal use.
It became the first state to do so.
Along with this several government agencies and well-meaning charities are providing free drug paraphernalia to the addicts walking the streets.
But now the druggies who prowl the streets of Portland, Oregon are pleading for the government to make drugs illegal again because addicts don’t have a chance of breaking free from their addiction under the current liberalized laws.
The Daily Mail interviewed one 33-year-old man:
Speaking of the policy’s effect on drug use in the city, he says: ‘It’s made it worse. Don’t get me wrong, it makes it better for me, but getting the police off our backs and giving us free pipes and foil to do our drugs is not going to get us off the streets.’
He estimates that 20 per cent of the city’s more than 5,000 homeless people want to tackle their addiction. But it’s hard when they live in a city that Measure 110 has turned into what even the Left-wing New York Times recently called a ‘drug-user’s paradise’.
And it appears that after nearly three years in which Portland’s once attractive and vibrant downtown area has been turned into a tent-covered hellscape of soaring crime, endemic drug abuse and maniacal behaviour, the rest of the city has finally accepted that the decriminalisation experiment has spectacularly failed.
It has gotten so bad on the streets, that a recent poll found that the majority of Portland citizens want to make it illegal to use drugs.
Police add that the government needs to tighten up the rules, so they can arrest drug users and get them off the street and into programs to break their addiction.
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