Oregon Paying the Price of “Progressivism”

(Faith & Freedom) Oregon residents voted in 2020 to decriminalize drugs, but just three years later many businesses, citizens, and lawmakers are having second thoughts amid a spike in overdose deaths and drug use.

Oregon and several other states and cities are paying the price for their so-called “progressive” ideology, but Oregon has been the most “progressive” of all regarding drug use.

And now they are facing the consequences.

Much can be learned from the Oregon Experiment.

[…]More than 60% of Oregon voters polled think that Measure 110, which decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs in November 2020, “has made drug addiction, homelessness, and crime worse,” according to DHM Research, and 56% of Oregon voters polled believe that the measure should be repealed entirely, according to an Emerson College poll.  (Read More)

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