We've got yet another display to put in a place of honor inside the ever-expanding "Museum of 'How It Started/How It's Going' History, and this began back in 2020:
Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday.
Instead, those found in possession would face a $100 fine or a health assessment that could lead to addiction counseling. Backers of the ballot measure, which Oregon voters passed by a wide margin in November, hailed it as a revolutionary move for the United States.
“Today, the first domino of our cruel and inhumane war on drugs has fallen, setting off what we expect to be a cascade of other efforts centering health over criminalization,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which spearheaded the ballot initiative.
Fast forward four years, and how is that working out?
Time to take a predictable one-eighty!
Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession https://t.co/XN2YQi4vKG
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2024
Another really well-thought-out plan from the Left collapses into a giant pile of "fail."
A bill recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday, undoing a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law as governments struggle to respond to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history.
The state Senate approved House Bill 4002 in a 21-8 vote after the House passed it 51-7 on Thursday. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Tina Kotek, who said in January that she is open to signing a bill that would roll back decriminalization, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
What a shocker!
Who could have seen this coming?
— RusticAles (@rusticales) March 2, 2024
This comes as a complete and utter surprise https://t.co/IoMa1PB4en
— Matt Nelson (@MNelson_ISU) March 2, 2024
All liberal policies are terrible in practice.
— Conservative News Feed (@C_N_F__on__X) March 2, 2024
Some of that is intentional. The Left likes to break things so they can spend a fortune to "fix" them, which of course only makes things worse, and then the cycle continues perpetually.
