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What's happening. Four years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking plan to decriminalize possession of all drugs in the state. That brief experiment is now set to come to an end. A bill...
Three years into Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization, the state is reversing course. After seeing increasing overdose deaths, rampant homelessness, and open-air drug dens, state...
Drug policy of Oregon. The U.S. state of Oregon has various policies restricting the production, sale, and use of different substances. In 2006, Oregon's per capita drug use exceeded the national average. The most used substances were marijuana, methamphetamine and illicit painkillers and stimulants.
Less than four years after Oregon voters decided to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs in the state, legislators have had enough. Portland, hard drugs and other experiments in direct...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) ended the state’s experiment with decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of hard drugs this week, but the debate over whether the state pulled the plug too...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The future of an Oregon bill that would roll back the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law is now in the hands of Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.
In November 2020, voters in the U.S. state of Oregon passed Ballot Measure 110, "[reclassifying] possession/penalties for specified drugs". Drugs affected include heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD and oxycodone, as well as others. The Drug Policy Alliance non-profit organization was behind the measure.
On Friday, the state Legislature shifted that approach again, sending a bill recriminalizing drug possession in Oregon to Gov. Tina Kotek's desk. Senators passed House Bill 4002 by a vote of 21-8.
April 1, 2024 at 6:37 PM. Susan Walsh/AP. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed legislation on Monday re-criminalizing the possession of certain drugs, roughly three years after the state became the...
April 1, 2024 at 3:18 PM. SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs, ending a first-in ...