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Backers of the ballot measure decriminalizing hard drugs, which Oregon voters passed by a wide margin in November, hailed it as a revolutionary move for the United States. Oregon 1st state to ...
In November 2020, voters in the U.S. state of Oregon passed Ballot Measure 110, [2] "[reclassifying] possession/penalties for specified drugs". [3] It reclassifies possession of drugs including heroin , methamphetamine , PCP , LSD and oxycodone as a Class E civil violation. [ 4 ]
Initiative 81 was a Washington, D.C. voter-approved ballot initiative that changed the police priorities related to the possession, consumption, and cultivation of entheogenic plants and fungi. The short title of the initiative was Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020 . [ 1 ]
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.
Decriminalization didn’t make Oregon’s drug problems worse, just more visible “Drug abuse isn’t pretty. But make no mistake: Even if you don’t see the carnage of the overdose epidemic ...
The Dallas City Council voted on Aug. 14 to place a marijuana decriminalization proposal on the ballot for the upcoming November election. This measure, known as the Dallas Freedom Act, is part of ...
Decriminalization of personal-use amounts of drugs, OK'd by voters in 2020 under Ballot Measure 110, was supposed to move hundreds of millions of dollars of marijuana tax revenues into drug ...
Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the legislative process which removes prosecutions against an action so that the action remains illegal but has no criminal penalties or at most some civil fine. [1] This reform is sometimes applied retroactively but otherwise comes into force from either the enactment of the law or from a specified date.