Oregon Realizes Drug Decriminalization Has Failed Spectacularly – HotAir

I’m not trying to get anyone’s hopes up here too much, but it’s just possible that we are witnessing a turning of the tide in terms of the progressive fads and policies that have been sweeping the nation over the past couple of decades. First, we saw the “defund the police” movement turn into a “refund the police” effort (at least in some places) as voters began to feel the bite of rising crime levels. Many progressives who formally sympathized with less strict immigration laws have been changing their tune after witnessing a literal invasion of our country numbering in the millions. And now, out in Oregon, previous successful efforts to decriminalize hard drugs have morphed into a push to “recriminalize” those same substances. It’s not just talk, either. The state legislature passed a measure this week that would roll back the previous decriminalization rules and the Governor has…