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Oregon’s Democrat Governor Signs Bill Recriminalizing Hard Drugs After Record Overdose Deaths

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The state of Oregon is reversing their controversial legalization of hard drugs after experiencing a record number of overdose deaths.

Their Democrat Governor Tina Kotek recently signed the bill making it official.

The changes under the law won’t take effect until September, but the situation in Oregon is dire.

FOX News reports:

Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing hard drugs, completing liberal experiment’s U-turn

Oregon has legislatively completed its U-turn on a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of certain drugs.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, on Monday signed into law a bill that reverses Measure 110, a 2020 law that voters approved to decriminalize most illegal possession of controlled substance offenses and redirect much of the state’s marijuana tax revenue to fund grants for addiction services.

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