Oregon recriminalized drugs on Sept. 1, 2024, after the passage of House Bill 4002. Most counties set up deflection programs to refer people to treatment rather than incarceration. Data shows counties ...
Late afternoon on a Wednesday in Portland, Oregon’s downtown core, the fire department’s Community Health Assess and Treat Overdose Response Team — a pilot program known as CHAT — were dispatched to a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — It was the first state to decriminalize marijuana in 1973, and now, Oregon is the first state in the nation to decriminalize small amounts of all drugs. This new law is meant to cut ...
Conventional wisdom in and far beyond Oregon is that the state’s Measure 110, an initiative passed by voters in 2020 decriminalizing small amounts of most drugs, was a flat-out failure and has become ...