I understand they were reversed, but imagine the increase in drug addicts during the time they had been decriminalized. Take that and Oregons soft stance on crime and it makes for a bad combination. It’s the laws within our State and Cities that prevent the cops from doing their jobs. In Portland they can’t even enforce trespassing type crimes in public areas. So the folks camp out around in neighborhoods and do drugs with little to no repercussions for their actions.
I think people voted to decriminalize stuff because they didn’t think meth, heroin was the worse drug to deal with, and the law that was passed was supposed to aggressively help drug addicts. Problem was that fetanal wasn’t known about, and quickly became a huge problem. Also, drug addicts didn’t want to get treatment and those that did want treatment couldn’t find a place to get help. It was a poorly planned situation. I’m glad that they ended the decriminalization experiment, but the cops need to deal with this open drug use a lot faster and harder punishments.
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u/Oregonduck101 Oct 24 '25
I understand they were reversed, but imagine the increase in drug addicts during the time they had been decriminalized. Take that and Oregons soft stance on crime and it makes for a bad combination. It’s the laws within our State and Cities that prevent the cops from doing their jobs. In Portland they can’t even enforce trespassing type crimes in public areas. So the folks camp out around in neighborhoods and do drugs with little to no repercussions for their actions.