Criminal justice reform killed a whole lot of people in Oregon. Among the exciting pro-crime experiments there was the decriminalization of drugs. Including stuff like meth and fentanyl. The results were surprising to liberals and unsurprising to anyone capable of common sense.

In 2019, 280 people died of a drug overdose in Oregon. Fatalities rose every year after, more than tripling by 2022, when 956 died. And last year, even more people died, according to preliminary data. Each month the number has been higher than the previous year, reaching 628 in June. The state is still compiling data for 2023, but if the trends continue, the total would reach 1,250 deaths from an overdose.

“On average, more than 90 Oregonians die every month from overdoses.”

So of course the people behind this admitted they were wrong and their ideology was fundamentally misguided? Nah.

Instead, they spent the past two years explaining why, like Communism, their experiment in killing everyone was great, only it wasn’t implemented the right way. (That was literally the argument made by ProPublica.)

Still with all the corpses piling up, Oregon reversed course and decriminalized drugs. At least enough to fool the suckers. And by suckers, I mean voters. In practice, the way that ‘deflection’ operates in Oregon, those arrested will be given information about drug treatment facilities. And when that fails to bring overdoses down, the media and ‘experts’ will claim that they were right and decriminalizing fentanyl had nothing to do with the overdoses. And they’ll urge decriminalizing it again.

In the meantime, enjoy video of Oregon health officials at their best.