Episode Transcript: #2113 - Christopher Rufo
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You were just telling me that Washington State recriminalized, or was Oregon, recriminalized
drugs?
Yeah, that's right.
This just came out the last week, but Washington State, rather Oregon State, had pursued the
police policy, the decriminalized drugs policy, and there's now this dramatic reversal.
Because guess what?
When you let people shoot up heroin on the side of the road, snort meth, intense downtown
Portland, it actually is not good for society.
And there's such this dramatic pushback, and I was actually shocked to see it, that Oregon
lawmakers, all Democrats, of course, said, you know what?
We've gone too far.
Let's bring it back to the center.
And I think that's something that's very good.
It's definitely very good.
It is a little shocking that they figured it out.
It just doesn't seem like, like when you go and drive through Oakland, for example, it
doesn't seem like anybody's trying to put a cork on that.