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On February 1, 2021, Oregon became the first state in the USA to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of all illicit drugs, following the passing of Oregon Ballot Measure 110 in November 2020. [2] The law was passed by 58% of voters in a ballot initiative.
The state dropped criminal penalties for possession of all illegal drugs, but a spike in overdose deaths inspired lawmakers to abandon the policy. Oregon's drug decriminalization experiment is ending.
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic ...
Decriminalization activists promised 110 would inject some much-needed compassion that the war on drugs omitted. Under the new regime, drug offenders in Oregon were issued a $100 ticket with the ...
Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs in response to a 2020 ballot measure, but it will now recriminalize those offenses under a ...
Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law with a new measure approved by the state Senate that would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small ...
Oregon's first-in-the-nation law, enacted in early 2021, decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs and directed the state's cannabis tax revenue toward addiction treatment services.
In 2020, Oregon decriminalized the possession of all drugs in Measure 110, [128] but in 2024, the Oregon State Senate passed a bill to reverse the decriminalization of hard drugs such as heroin after there was public backlash to the impacts of the measure.