Soros-Supported Drug Policy Fails with Oregon Voters

Soros-Supported Drug Policy

SOROS-SUPPORTED DRUG POLICY. The 2021 Oregon Measure 10 came from the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) lobbying group. Billionaire George Soros founded DPA, which also gained donations from Mark Zuckerberg and the ACLU. What for? A drug decriminalization bill making it easy to keep using drugs without real incentives to get treatment.

Measure 110 even decriminalized fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine possession. It ensured safe drug supplies and housing for drug users. Even with housing it didn’t require treatment. The sale of legal marijuana would fund it. Nearly 60% of voters said yes and in February 2021 it went into effect. Now, 64% of Oregonians want to repeal at least some aspects of 110. Why?

Drug offenders got a $100 ticket but would not have to pay if they called a treatment center. But many such tickets thrown away by offenders littered the city of Portland. Less than 5 percent of offenders phoned the treatment centers. That amounted to a cost of $7,000 a call. And the treatment centers permitted drug use and did not require users to get clean.

Magnet for addicts

What kind of success do you expect from that? Sounds like many of the people who promoted and ran this program were using drugs.

Meanwhile, Oregon became a magnet for addicts across the country wanting to take advantage of it. Open-air drug dens and rampant homelessness plagued the streets. Overdose death increased 43% in 2021. Then 41.6% between Sept. 2022 and Sept. 2023. Compare that with the national average of just 2 percent.

Finally, state legislators passed a bipartisan overhaul of 110 that the governor signed on April 1. It reinstitutes penalties for possessing hard drugs. The only antidote for calling evil good is calling evil evil again. And treating it as evil instead of good.

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