Who would have guessed that decriminalizing hard drugs would lead to an epidemic of overdoses and lawlessness? Well, not progressive voters in Oregon.

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill to recriminalize drugs as the government “struggles to respond to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history.”

According to AP News:

A bill decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday, undoing a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law as governments struggle to respond to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history.

The state Senate approved House Bill 4002 in a 21-8 vote after the House passed it 51-7 on Thursday. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Tina Kotek, who said in January that she is open to signing a bill that would roll back decriminalization, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

“With this bill, we are doubling down on our commitment to make sure Oregonians have access to the treatment and care that they need,” said Democratic Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber, of Portland, one of the bill’s authors, adding that its passage will “be the start of real and transformative change for our justice system.”

The measure makes the possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail. It enables police to confiscate the drugs and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks. Drug treatment is to be offered as an alternative to criminal penalties.

Decriminalization of personal-use amounts of drugs, OK’d by voters in 2020 under Ballot Measure 110, was supposed to move hundreds of millions of dollars of marijuana tax revenues into drug treatment and harm reduction programs.

It only took a couple of years before voters realized how asinine it is to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin. But this is what happens when progressives think everyone is just a victim of the system and should not be held accountable for their actions.

However, it turns out that claiming addicts have a disease rather than a lack of accountability, does nothing but lead to the "deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history."

Heroin, methamphetamine, and oxycodone are very addictive drugs. Why on earth would voters want more of that sort of thing in their neighborhood? Who would vote for that besides people already addicted to those drugs? It is a no-brainer that decreasing or erasing any penalties that come with drug use will do nothing but increase drug use and all the tragic outcomes associated with that, including death.

This was never about whether or not "addiction" is a crime. More often than not, innocent victims are involved when people are addicted to dangerous drugs, including the most vulnerable members of society when infants are born addicted to these substances.

Unless your goal is to destroy society, we should be working towards decreasing drug use, not increasing it. Choosing to get high on heroin is an objectively bad thing. And it is unfathomable why voters would want more people on that substance rather than less. But hey, at least they can say they tried.

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