After four years of a mishandled drug crisis in Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler has decided to rein it in by reinstating criminal punishment for fentanyl possession. The new bill is much needed and should help to rectify Portland’s drug disaster, which was brought on by bad leadership.

In 2019, Portland officials approved the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, which decriminalized small uses of drugs under the premise that criminal punishment is not an effective or humane way to heal addiction.