Lawmakers in Oregon backpedaled, passing a invoice on Friday to recriminalize the possession of small quantities of medicine that had been as soon as decriminalized. Measure 110 ended legal penalties in 2020 for the possession of some quantities of medicine whereas supposedly increasing entry to habit providers.
The move to roll back decriminalization comes on the heels of a 41.55 percent increase in drug overdose deaths. With solely two milligrams thought-about a deadly dose, fentanyl poisonings stay one of many main causes of drug-related deaths within the state.
Final 12 months, an investigation led to the largest fentanyl seizure in Oregon’s Multnomah County Sheriff’s Workplace historical past, in line with the company. Roughly 58,000 fentanyl tablets and 16 kilos of fentanyl powder had been seized whereas processing the proof.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Derek Maltz, a former head of the Particular Operations Division (SOD) of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), concerning the Beaver State’s latest determination and extra. “It is interesting that the same people who voted for Measure 110 are the same people who now want to backtrack on it,” he identified.
Maltz mentioned, “This failed experiment should be crystal clear to anyone in America that they’ve created a damn war zone out there with crime, homelessness, addiction, deaths, and destruction of the community.” And in line with him, “You can’t even walk around Portland safely in some areas now.”
“But the part that no one is talking about is the Chinese [regime’s] involvement in what’s happening in Oregon and all across America,” Maltz mentioned. “Part of their overall strategic campaign is to destabilize America under the guise of drug addiction and people in Amerca are not putting these pieces together.”
For the previous DEA exec, “there is a full-blown chemical attack happening against the country with the goal to destroy Americans, poison future generations, and destabilize us.” In 2023, for instance, California seized a file degree of 62,224 pounds of fentanyl, which is “enough lethal doses of fentanyl seized to potentially kill [the] global population—nearly twice over.”
The Chinese language regime has been working with Mexican drug cartels for years to gas the fentanyl disaster in America, Maltz mentioned. Coincidentally, Chinese language migrants at the moment are the fastest-growing group crossing from Mexico into the U.S. on the southern border.
Whereas the U.S. is having little success slowing the unrestricted movement of migrants, fentanyl, and different medicine into the nation, Maltz mentioned, “some of the Chinese are now invading the country to set up these marijuana grow operations.”
A suspected 270 Chinese language-owned marijuana rising operations value an estimated $4.27 billion have been uncovered within the state of Maine alone. Because of this, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, and U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, have been urging the Division of Justice (DOJ) to “crack down” on these unlawful operations.
Along with the array of different medicine “poisoning our country,” Maltz mentioned, “this very pure kind of marijuana is something we’ve never seen before.” It’s inflicting emergency room visits and may be linked to a rise in despair, nervousness, schizophrenia, psychosis, and extra, he defined.
“It’s destabilizing the brains of our citizens and is being used as just another way for the Chinese [regime] to attack our country,” he warned. “We have to get more serious about stopping the flow of all the deadly substances, precursor chemicals, [and more] that are coming into America and killing our citizens.”
