If you need an example of bad drug policy vs. human nature, then Oregon is your gal. She decriminalized hard drugs in 2020 and was rewarded with a 200% spike in overdose deaths. People were not more likely to seek treatment, but they were more likely to become unproductive criminals if they didn’t kill themselves.
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Assisted Sui-Side-Effects: Burning Throat, Vomiting, … Taking Six Days to Die
Oregon allows anyone from anywhere to obtain medically assisted death (with dignity) in the Beaver State, but it doesn’t always go as advertised, as in, ‘gee beave, I didn’t think it was gonna take that long to die.’
Politics and a Spontaneous International Trip
PORTLAND, OREGON – Following an exciting visit to Taiwan with a legislative delegation, I lingered here in the Rose City with Beth to visit family and experience the Pacific Northwest. The foliage colored up about a month behind New Hampshire, so it was still beautiful in late November.
Two Years Later: Oregon Legalized Hard Drugs and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect
Democrats would never allow just anyone to have access to firearms under the pretense that those inclined to commit suicide would instead ask for help. Nor would they presume that the manic or psychotic would call a helpline instead of shooting up the nearest gun-free zone. But when it comes to drugs?
Oregon Can’t Teach Kids to Read – Solution: Skip the Proficiency Requirement to Graduate
Liberal states and cities with education monopolies have failed kids for decades, but more recently, the problem of illiteracy has gotten more attention than they’d like. Kids can’t read.
Oregon’s Slippery Slope – Nearly 80% Of Assisted Suicides Are People on Government Health Insurance
Oregon passes made medically assisted suicide legal in 1998. That year, 16 individuals took their lives with the help of medical professionals. In 2022, that number was 278. 2022 is the year they approved suicide tourism.
Banana’s: New Underground Railroads Emerge Along West Coast
Reports of a new underground railroad spiriting people from captivity on the west coast have emerged in recent days. Families, mostly white, conservative, and/or Christians, are leaving in the dead of night via a network of rural routes and safe houses.
O’Keefe Gets Oregon’s Recording Laws Overturned – Reminded me of NH, a Bit …
On Monday, James O’Keefe announced a court win for a case started while he was still running Project Veritas. Veritas challenged Oregon’s Laws regarding recording people in public, and the 9th Circuit Court agreed with O’Keefe and Veritas.
Oregon Won’t Let Christians Adopt Children
No one in Oregon is prohibiting Jessica Bates from exercising her religious rights, but they are denying her equal access to state-managed child welfare programs, including adoption because she’s a Christian.
Two More Oregon Counties Approve Measure to Leave The State to Join Greater Idaho
Nearly two years ago, I joked about making a deal with Massachusetts to give them Nashua. After Tuesday’s election, they might just take it. Way out west, eastern and central Oregon residents are working on a different strategy. They are trying to leave and become part of Idaho.
Feature or Bug: Overdose Deaths Spike more than 200% in Oregon After Decriminalizing Hard Drugs.
If you have any technical experience, you’ll be familiar with the phrase feature or bug. When something does something you didn’t expect, you have to ask if it was supposed to (a feature) or not (bug). And yes, it’s a joke. Like Oregon, which decriminalized hard drugs claiming they wanted to help more people … overdose?
Assisted Suicide is Now Available in Vermont after a Zoom Call with Dr. Death
If you qualify as terminally ill (a definition that can change in a heartbeat – life is a terminal condition), Vermont has made it easier to obtain physician-assisted suicide drugs!
Assisted Suicide is Now Available in Vermont after a Zoom Call with Dr. Death
If you qualify as terminally ill (a definition that can change in a heartbeat – life is after all a terminal condition), Vermont has made it easier to obtain physician-assisted suicide drugs!
Oregon Makes Assisted Suicide “Legal” For Everyone
Oregon has rapidly devolved into the template for utopia. The Left’s Eden, the promised land. A place where criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens and defending yourself is a crime. But if you don’t like it, the same state says it’s okay to kill yourself.
Do Results Matter: After Oregon Issues Indoor and Outdoor Mask Mandate Cases are Up 74%
This isn’t getting the sort of wide-ranging reporting it deserves. But then, why would it. A very liberal left-coast state doing very liberal left-coast things mandated masks indoors and out to address a spike in COVID cases. So, how’d that work out?
Five More Oregon Counties Give Portland the Middle Finger – Vote to Become Part of Idaho
Remember that time when we told you about the five counties in Oregon that wanted to secede to Idaho. That was February. All five have voted in special elections on May 18th, and they want out of Oregon, bringing the total to seven.
Five Counties in the State of Oregon Are Voting to Leave And Join Idaho
We might be able to make a deal with Massachusetts. Sell them Vermont (cheap) if they will take Nashua. It’s just a suggestion. But along the same vein (sort of), five red counties in Oregon have had enough of Gov. Kate Brown and all that Oregon Democrat BS (Blue Sh!t).
Watch Profanity-Laced Rant That Gets Public School Teacher Put on Leave
If we’ve said it once, we have said it a thousand times (probably more). Let the lefty loons loose lips sink ships. Do not block or censor them. They are an endless source of amusement and content. And they can’t help themselves like this School Teacher who lost her mind at an intersection.
Democrat Party Official Arrested After Approaching Trump Supporters With a Knife
John Callahan, the Washington County, Oregon Democrat Party Communications Director, has been arrested and charged with unlawful use of a weapon after he drew a knife and approached a Women for Trump group.
Portland Spends 200% More on ‘Policing’ Since it Defunded the Police
Add this new act to the list of stupid Democrat tricks. Portland, the city that can’t sleep because of the rioting, got #woke, and now they’ll go broke. Defunding the police has cost them 7 million more year-over-year, a 200% increase in law enforcement spending.