Three years after Oregon voters elected to decriminalize drugs, a new study has concluded that the first-in-the-nation law has not led to increased drug use or drug overdoses. The conclusion counters an increasingly common narrative that Oregon’s drug problem is unique in the country — and that decriminalization is to blame.
So the word of one guy who works at a single fire station and speculates about what’ll happen in the future is supposed to be treated as gospel for the entire state?