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Did Drug Decriminalization Cause a 'Catastrophe' in Oregon?
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 months agoYes on 110 Three years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking ballot initiative that...
Opinion: The real reason why Oregon recriminalizing drugs is a cautionary tale
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 month agoRising homelessness and visible crime in Portland fed panic over a drug decriminalization measure...
Oregon recriminalizes drug possession. How many people are in jail for drug-related crimes?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that ends the first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law that was enacted three years ago. House Bill 4002, recriminalizes the possession ...
Is the war on drugs back on? | The Excerpt podcast
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOn Sunday's episode of The Excerpt podcast: It's been just over 50 years since President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Since then, drug policy at the state level has mostly been progressing ...
Greater Idaho could happen, with enough work. Here’s the reason it should happen | Opinion
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoAs an eastern Oregon leader in the Greater Idaho movement, I’d like to explain why we are asking...
Drug overdoses surge in some states: 5 takeaways on numbers that 'are people's lives,' expert says
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThere were more than 107,500 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, caused mainly by synthetic...
Red States Are Reversing Criminal Justice Reform
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIllustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: iStock It was impossible to avoid the "strange bedfellows" cliché when reading about the criminal justice...
Medford family fights back after killer drug takes their son
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDec. 4—Stockings for every member of the Garcia family are hanging from the mantel above their fireplace, and a Christmas tree lights up the living room of their Medford home. But Alex Garcia ...
Legal weed in Washington turns 10 this week. What challenges lie ahead in the next decade?
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDec. 4—When a couple of hundred enthusiasts and activists gathered at the Space Needle 10 years ago to celebrate Washington's decriminalization of marijuana (and flout the law prohibiting public ...
