Efforts to decriminalize drugs in Oregon and create a nirvana of stoned people have been a disaster. After the carnage and chaos that has accompanied decriminalization efforts, many now want to reverse course.

Former decriminalization proponents now realize the obvious (and what conservative Republicans have known for years): drugs are harmful, and criminals who use them belong in jail, not some hippie-inspired, celebratory, fairy tale utopia that had no real chance of ever happening. If common sense had prevailed, all the horrors people in Oregon experienced could have been avoided.