Editor’s note: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and other Oregon leaders declared a state of emergency for downtown Portland on Tuesday owing to an explosion of fentanyl use in the city. The state of emergency will last at least 90 days.
According to The Associated Press, city, county, and state authorities will coordinate to address drug addiction and to crack down on drug sales in Portland.
This comes following Oregon’s decriminalization of fentanyl and other hard drugs in 2020. Daily Signal Signal columnist Jarrett Stepman wrote about the chaos caused by Oregon’s drug criminaliztion in a Nov. 21 article, republished here.
There’s a price to be paid for bad policies divorced from human nature.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law to decriminalize hard drugs is finally facing serious backlash….
