Not Happening in Portland Oregon

[Animal]

Oregon leaders declare 90-day state of emergency in downtown Portland to address fentanyl crisis

Who could have seen this coming?

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler each made an emergency declaration to address the public health and public safety crisis in Portland’s Central City, citing overdoses, deaths and fear driven by fentanyl use, according to a Tuesday press release.

“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Kotek said in the release.

Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020, which decriminalized some use of hard-drugs, including fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid. The measure has received criticism, as opioid overdose deaths steadily climbed since.

Opioid overdose deaths in the state increased from 280 in 2019 to 956 in 2022, according to the state’s data.

Nearly 70,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses that involved fentanyl in 2021, almost a four-fold increase over five years, according to a US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention report released last spring. Fentanyl is significantly more likely to be involved in a deadly overdose than other common drugs, according to the CDC.

Experts say reversing the trends in overdose deaths really depends on broader access to and use of treatments for opioid use disorder.

Sorry, Experts, but reversing the trend depends on reversing the law to make it illegal again. Fuck the disorder.

[CHEEZY17]

Theres always been a place in my brain that thought "What if we just made drugs legal?" Well, we can thank the goofball Lefties in Oregon that showed us exactly how that would go.

[Biker]

Its not just downtown PDX, its more than half the city.

[Animal]

Its not just downtown PDX, its more than half the city.

its always baby steps when it comes to getting people to admit their revolutionary ideas are retarded. like with these sanctuary cities. just one or two at first. eventually they will all concede.

[Biker]

Its not just downtown PDX, its more than half the city.

its always baby steps when it comes to getting people to admit their revolutionary ideas are retarded. like with these sanctuary cities. just one or two at first. eventually they will all concede.

Yep, but it is fun to witness when their utopias begin to crumble