It wasn't so much about the flaws in the current drug policy in Portland, as flaws in implementation. Portland planned to decriminalize a lot of things and put

It wasn't so much about the flaws in the current drug policy in Portland, as flaws in implementation. Portland planned to decriminalize a lot of things and put a bunch of other measures and support systems in place. COVID and other things hit, and all that got enacted was decriminalization with none of the guard rails or help mechanisms, with predictable outcomes.