After three years of legalized hard drugs and rampant overdose deaths in Portland, Oregon, lawmakers this month rightly said enough is enough. There is a better option: strong progressive economic ...

(Marijuana has been legal in Oregon since 2015.) The alliance and others used Portugal, which decriminalized certain hard drugs in 2001 ... of emergency in downtown Portland.

On a gray November afternoon in downtown Portland ... no evidence between "legal changes that removed or substantially reduced criminal penalties for drug possession in Oregon and Washington ...

Oregon was the first state to vote entirely by mail, the first state to offer over-the-counter birth control, and the first state to legalize ... t think all of Portland's drug problems could ...

They started out their report like this: "This is Portland, Oregon ... legal landscape. The network also pointed out that police had generally stopped arresting anyone for having small amounts of ...

The streets of Portland ... fentanyl overdose rates, Oregon pioneered a 2020 law called Measure 110 that partly decriminalized the possession of certain drugs. Oregon's Drug Addiction Treatment ...

PORTLAND, Ore ... He also said a potential influx of new drug cases could further strain Oregon’s legal system, which is already struggling with a critical public defender shortage, and ...

The reversal will crack down on public drug use in cities like Portland and give ... could not have been worse for Oregon’s “failed” experiment with the legalization.

“Countries with legalized ... “Portland police investigated a record number of drug-overdose deaths in the city. This year, they topped that record in early August.” “Oregon topped the ...

Drug legalization advocates promised ... While far-left Portland mayor Ted Wheeler called for Measure 110 to be repealed, the Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance is warning that the county ...

Oregon made history with legal psilocybin therapy, but two years in, the new industry is struggling to grow and reach ...

Oregon was the first state to vote entirely by mail, the first state to offer over-the-counter birth control, and the first state to legalize ... t think all of Portland’s drug problems could ...