Why Oregon is recriminalizing even small amounts of illicit drugs Oregon's state legislature voted to reverse a measure that decriminalized personal drug use. What does the Oregon experiment and ...

Oregon’s governor has signed a measure to reimpose criminal penalties for hard drugs. Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland talks about why the experiment “failed.” By Mike Baker Reporting from ...

Oregon removed criminal penalties for possessing street drugs in 2020. But amid soaring overdose deaths, state lawmakers have voted to bring back some restrictions. By Mike Baker Reporting from ...

The real reason why Oregon recriminalizing drugs is a cautionary tale. A woman enters the Great Circle drug treatment center in Salem, Ore., in 2022, ...

The Oregon state legislature has voted to overhaul Measure 110, recriminalizing small amounts of drugs and signaling the end of the most progressive experiment in U.S. drug policy.

oregon governor to sign bill recriminalizing illicit drugs, ending liberal experiment The new law, HB 4002, makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in ...

While recriminalizing possession of small amounts of hard drugs won't fix Oregon's addiction crisis, it's a necessary tool that can help people into treatment, the editorial board writes. But it ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek will sign a bill recriminalizing small amounts of illicit drugs again, according to a statement from the governor's office on Thursday, subsequently ending the liberal state ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Friday vowed to sign into law a bill that recriminalizes drug use, more than three years after voters approved the most liberal drug law in the country, one that ...

Oregon's state legislature voted to reverse a measure that decriminalized personal drug use. What does the Oregon experiment and its likely overhaul mean in the wider context of the U.S. war on drugs?