Change drug laws

For years experts on both sides of legalizing drugs have offered opinions with no empirical evidence but that has changed. Oregon decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine, meth and heroin as of February 2021. If you are caught with these drugs you either pay a $100 fine or you call a number that directs you to get a health screening. Of the 16,000 who were offered help only one percent agreed to enter treatment. From AP on June 2, 2022. Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses increase. In 2019 there were 280 deaths by opioid overdose, and in 2020 the figure rose to 472 and in the first 10 months of 2021 the total is 607. This deserves additional study but it doesn't look good so far. Notice this law does not legalize these drugs just decriminalizes them.