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Decriminalization will always fail if the right support systems aren’t in place “The ways in which Oregon officials ignored what it would take to successfully implement their vision of drug ...
Jan. 7—Measure 110 touted decriminalization, treatment Oregon voters who approved Measure 110 were sold on the idea that providing addiction treatment for people caught with drugs like meth or ...
Decriminalization activists promised 110 would inject some much-needed compassion that the war on drugs omitted. Under the new regime, drug offenders in Oregon were issued a $100 ticket with the ...
Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law with a new measure approved by the state Senate that would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small ...
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic ...
The new law, passed with the support of Republican lawmakers who had long opposed decriminalization, makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. It aims to make it easier for police to crack down on drug use in public and introduced harsher penalties for selling drugs near places such as parks.
However, in 2024, Oregon partially reversed its drug laws, with the governor signing a new law which made possessing small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor starting September 1, 2024. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, the new law did not require mandatory jail time in all cases or apply to soft drugs, with cannabis tax revenue even still being ...
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-the-nation experiment with decriminalization ...