https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/19/oregon-addiction-spending

Washington county, located west of Portland, got a $1.5m deflection budget approved last year. Nearly $700,000 of it was allocated to salaries for new law enforcement positions: $283,487 for a high-level deputy district attorney; $116,664 for a legal specialist in the district attorney’s office; and $257,335 for a sheriff’s lieutenant. It also included $40,000 for overtime for the sheriff’s office.

The county, meanwhile, allotted $360,000 total for community peer mentor services meant to directly help people get services and treatment.

#Oregon #orpol #pnw #Portland #pdx #washcooregon #measure110 #warondrugs #police #corruption #classwar

this sucks, man.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/08/portland-police-expect-jail-to-be-big-part-of-their-response-to-new-law-recriminalizing-drug-possession.html

> Portland Police Chief Bob Day on Friday said he expects using police to address low-level drug possession will lead to a “high likelihood” that officers will have to use force in some arrests and that intoxicated people with significant medical conditions may die in custody.

#pdx #portland #oregon #PortlandOregon #orpol #pnw #warondrugs #m110 #measure110 #massincarceration #ppb #ppa #yuppies #acab #portlandpolice #societyhotel

Morgan Godvin led the #activism for #Oregon’s #Measure110, decriminalizing drug possession and redirecting funds to treatment and harm reduction.

However, challenges like the rise of fentanyl and ideological pushback led to its repeal, reflecting broader punitive attitudes towards drug users. Godvin stresses that incarceration worsens addiction, advocating for compassionate, treatment-centric solutions over punitive measures.

#DrugDecriminalization

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/oregons-measure-110-a-brief-victory-for-drug-decriminalization/

In other words, it had nothing to do with drug decriminalization.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/03/02/as-oregon-lawmakers-criminalize-drugs-again-washington-offers-a-cautionary-example/

#measure110 #warondrugs #oregon #orpol #orleg #fentanyl

Oregon certainly has a problem but there’s no evidence that problem is Measure 110.

• https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/03/02/as-oregon-lawmakers-criminalize-drugs-again-washington-offers-a-cautionary-example/

https://infosec.exchange/@risibledog/112032931771955092

#measure110 #portland #pdx #orpol #farright #warondrugs #Oregon

Indeed, the most recent overdose death data from the federal Centers for Disease Control shows that over the past 12 months ending in September, reported drug overdose deaths in Washington increased faster than they did in Oregon (38.27% to 32.85%) and that the absolute number overdose deaths in Washington (3,425) was more than double the number of overdose deaths in Oregon (1,650), far greater than the difference in populations. (The CDC provided two figures: reported overdose deaths and predicted overdose deaths. The latter number attempts to account for incomplete data. By that measure, Oregon’s one-year growth would slightly exceed Washington’s: 41.55% to 41.40%.)

The comparison is noteworthy because Washington never surrendered the law-enforcement tools Oregon is now seeking to reinstate. Yet its results were the same, if not worse.

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“ #Measure110 made Oregon a destination for cartels and illegal drug traffickers to poison our kids and communities without consequence. The -4 amendment to HB 4002 is needed to save lives by deporting illegal drug dealers.”
-- Brock Smith (R)

https://oregoncatalyst.com/75802-sen-smith-amendment-stop-illegal-immigrant-drug-dealers.html

DUDE. That's because #decriminalization isn't full legalization. #Oregon let the black market persist and exploit the situation, and flood the state with #fentanyl in search for a bigger profit margin.