It seems everyone is telling Oregonians they learned the wrong lessons from the war on drugs and Measure 110.

It was wrong to arrest people and put them in jail if their problem was just possession of a small amount of drugs.

It was wrong to give a person possessing a small amount of drugs a ticket with no consequences and hope that they follow up and seek drug treatment.

It would be wrong to increase the penalty for minor drug possession to a Class A misdemeanor.

It would be wrong to increase the penalty for minor drug possession to a Class C misdemeanor.

Those messages and more have poured out of legislators, advocacy groups and more as Oregon has tried to sort out its drug policy.

Measure 110, though, reaped a backlash. The changes that Democrats state Rep. Jason Kropf, D-Bend, and Senate Majority Kate Lieber put together seemed a reasonable solution.

For instance, the absence of a penalty for minor drug possession was not enough to drive people enough into treatment. So they proposed making the penalty a Class C misdemeanor. Republicans wanted it to be a Class A misdemeanor. That, though, was apparently a misdemeanor level too far for Democrats.

Except … except Democrats and Republicans just moved forward a bill Wednesday, Senate Bill 1553, that would make it a Class A misdemeanor in some cases to use drugs.

“While in or on a public transit vehicle or public transit station, knowingly ingests, inhales, ignites, injects or otherwise consumes a controlled substance that is not lawfully possessed by the person,” that would be a Class A misdemeanor.

How is that so very different from possessing drugs right outside the transit station? It is different. But no so very different. If a Class A misdemeanor is a misdemeanor too far elsewhere, it seems inconsistent to allow that much of an increase in a penalty.