Hi, everybody. Cheryl Akison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Akison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure after hours. Today, we are off to Portland, Oregon for my story,

Hard Drugs, Soft on Crime.

Oregon is attempting a big turnaround after voters approved a controversial law a couple of years

back that, believe it or not,

legalized hard drugs, including heroin, fitanol, opioids, other hard drugs.

Today on this podcast, I'm going to speak with Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez,

that's in the Portland area.

I sat down with him his first week on the job.

Such a fascinating case because after they tried that experiment with the hard drugs for a couple of

years, it just proved to be disastrous.

And even in very, very ultra-liberal Portland, Oregon and Oregon at large, the legislature decided to rescind that controversial law and do a big turnaround, try to dial things back.

A lot of other things happen about the same time they legalized or allowed the use of these hard drugs.

There was also an explosion in homelessness,

which in many places like Oregon coincided with the fentanyl opening up at the southern border,

so much fentanyl coming in and so many drug overdoses, so much mental illness. They also did a big

defund the police movement in Oregon during this time period.

So all of these things together dovetailed to greatly increase crime and other problems,

resulting in voters, voting out the supposedly soft on crime, George Soros-funded

prosecutor that had been there for a couple of years

and voting in Nathan Vasquez. And I think you're going to find this conversation with him fascinating.

This is your first week on the job? First week on the job is the Multlima County District Attorney.

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