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2020-11-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Overdose deaths rose by 70 percent this year in Oregon
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Posted by Fred 2020-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 And it'll be even higher next year since Oregon pretty much legalized hard drugs like Meth and Heroin.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-11-18 01:08||   2020-11-18 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 all drugs, including heroin, cocaine, meth and other hard drugs

Summer of Love
Autumn of Ecstasy
Winter of Death
Posted by Elmomorong Ulavique4363 2020-11-18 01:16||   2020-11-18 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Stupid leaders and "bad luck" travel together.
Posted by Voldemort Elmutch4874 2020-11-18 03:23||   2020-11-18 03:23|| Front Page Top

#4 And their OD deaths are my problem? Hardly. Have at it, druggies.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 06:09||   2020-11-18 06:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Bit daft,
Those sold drugs must be entitled to care by the seller or these risks will occur.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-11-18 06:10||   2020-11-18 06:10|| Front Page Top

#6 who cares?
Posted by Chris 2020-11-18 09:35||   2020-11-18 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 If they rose this year, that happened ***before*** decriminalization. In other words, blame prohibition, not legalization.
Posted by Iblis 2020-11-18 09:52||   2020-11-18 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Saves the state $$ as it weeds out the heavy users that currently commit crimes and seek medical attention.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-11-18 10:53||   2020-11-18 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Darwin must somehow play a role.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-18 11:01||   2020-11-18 11:01|| Front Page Top

#10 The travesty is the non-violent users who are thrown in jail.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 11:09||   2020-11-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ You'd rather have them stealing from you to support their habits?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-18 12:09||   2020-11-18 12:09|| Front Page Top

#12 There are many non-drug users who steal.

Not all drug addicts are robbers.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 12:19||   2020-11-18 12:19|| Front Page Top

#13 That's what comes from living in an oppressive socialist state.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-18 12:23||   2020-11-18 12:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Faster,please.
Posted by Regular joe 2020-11-18 14:05||   2020-11-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#15 Anybody that pumps $$$ into that death industry should be locked up.
Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-18 15:12||   2020-11-18 15:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Oregon will be red in time for 2024 as the great heroin die-off will be well on its way by then.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-18 15:26||   2020-11-18 15:26|| Front Page Top

#17 And the pharmaceutical-industrial complex would never be part of the addiction problem. /sarc
Posted by Clem 2020-11-18 16:49||   2020-11-18 16:49|| Front Page Top

#18 I imagine that druggies in general don’t vote. But they probably don’t object to their votes being harvested, either , so that’s a wash.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-18 21:40||   2020-11-18 21:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Think of it as evolution in action.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-11-18 22:25||   2020-11-18 22:25|| Front Page Top

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