{"id":2014530,"date":"2023-08-28T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-voters-want-to-repeal-drug-decriminalization-poll-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:55:53","slug":"oregon-voters-want-to-repeal-drug-decriminalization-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-voters-want-to-repeal-drug-decriminalization-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Oregon Voters Seek to Revoke Drug Decriminalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foregon-voters-want-to-repeal-drug-decriminalization-poll-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>Homeless camp tents in northeast Portland (Wikimedia Commons)<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>A New Poll Reveals Oregon Residents&#8217; Desire to\u2062 Repeal\u200b Drug Decriminalization Law<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-22-of-cable-news-is-news-study\/\" title=\"Only 22% of Cable \u2018News\u2019 is News: Study\">recent poll conducted<\/a> by Emerson College\u200b shows that Oregon residents are now\u200c seeking\u2062 to repeal\u200d a law\u2063 they had \u2064previously voted to enact\u200c less than three years ago.\u2062 This law, \u2064known as Measure 110, had downgraded the penalties for\u2063 the use of hard drugs,\u2064 such as heroin\u200d and \u2062methamphetamine, to a small fine. However, since its implementation, Oregon has witnessed a\u200c significant increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-law-expiring-leaves-door-open-to-legal-hard-drug-use-in-the-city\/\" title=\"Seattle's expiring law allows legal use of hard drugs in the city.\">public \u200bdrug<\/a> use, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-voters-want-to-repeal-drug-decriminalization-poll-finds\/\" title=\"Poll: Oregon Voters Seek to Revoke Drug Decriminalization\">fentanyl-related fatalities rising<\/a> by 210 percent since 2020, according to state authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cpoll, \u200dreleased this month, indicates that a majority of respondents, 56 percent, prefer a full \u2063repeal of \u2062the measure rather than leaving the policy in place.\u2062 Additionally, when given the option to either\u200c maintain the \u2064law or repeal certain parts of it, 64 \u2062percent of respondents chose a partial repeal.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-residents-oppose-woke-education\/\" title=\"Blue State Residents Oppose Woke Education\">poll reveals<\/a> that 58 percent of those surveyed believe that the state is heading in the\u200d wrong direction, while 42 percent think \u200dit \u2062is going the right way.<\/p>\n<p>This poll comes in the wake of a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> report, published two months ago, which highlighted\u2062 the increasing exodus of Portland residents due to escalating homelessness and crime rates. According \u200bto U.S. Census data, between 2020 \u200cand 2022, Portland experienced a population decline of nearly 3 percent, after having seen a 23 percent increase in the two decades prior to \u200bthe pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>methamphetamine and heroin, to a civil violation rather than a criminal offense. However, a recent survey reveals that a majority of Oregonians now support overturning this law. This shift in public opinion reflects growing concerns about the negative impact of drug decriminalization on communities, particularly in relation to homelessness and public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2014531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}