‘Enormous mistake': Business leaders, residents fed up with blue state drug laws issue 2024 ultimatum
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Three years after decriminalizing drug possession, polling suggests a majority of Oregon voters are growing tired of the first-in-the-nation experiment. Will 2024 see reform?
"Nobody's looked at Oregon and said, 'Wow, this is a model of fabulous success.'" Portland Police officer David Baer checks on a man in downtown Portland on Aug. 31, 2023. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Officer David Baer holds out a container of suspected fentanyl he found inside a tent. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Portland bike squad officer Donny Mathew leads a handcuffed man away from tents to a patrol vehicle. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Bike squad officer David Baer speaks to a man suspected of smoking fentanyl in a car parked outside a hotel in downtown Portland. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Officer David Baer photographs suspected fentanyl he confiscated from a man sitting in a Subaru outside a hotel in downtown Portland, Aug. 31, 2023. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
Nearly 60% of Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020, decriminalizing personal use amounts of all drugs and redirecting swaths of the state's marijuana tax revenue to fund grants for addiction services.
The rollout was beleaguered by bureaucratic flubs and a brief implementation timeline. It also coincided with the nationwide fentanyl crisis. More than 100,000 people across the country died from a drug overdose in 2022, a 45% increase since 2019, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
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