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…Dems Cave to GOP on Measure 110…

…the Oregonian once again gleefully published the results of a right-wing poll that claims that a majority of Oregonians think Measure 110 is a “failure” and “all parties support recriminalizing drugs.” Why should you be suspicious? The poll only questioned 500 people… across the ENTIRE STATE, the poll was conducted by GS Strategies (who helped…

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Oregon… stronger criminal penalties for drug possession

Oregon Democrats would enact stiffer potential criminal penalties for drug possession than they initially planned, under a negotiated bill that could get a hearing as early as Friday [2/23/24]. A new version of Democrats’ House Bill 4002… also weakens a provision that would have required police to offer to connect people caught with drugs to…

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Oregon pioneered… drug policy…

“We knew that we didn’t want to go backwards on what was happening with regard to the war on drugs, we can’t go back to that…” Oregon Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber said. …the hearing by the Joint Committee On Addiction and Community Safety Response focused on Republican-backed Senate Bill 1555 [creates the crime of…

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Colorado… psychedelics…

Five psychedelic substances… in Colorado, including psilocybin. That means personal possession, cultivation, use and sharing are not illegal or grounds for arrest… according to the statute, anyone over 21 who grows, manufactures, uses, possesses or shares a “personal” amount… is not breaking state or local laws. The greeter at a 21-plus party in Denver offers…

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The magic of growing your own psilocybin mushrooms

 …transcend the clinic and be used positively by the masses (not just the clinically depressed or suffering)? The answer is a resounding “Yes.” …I will be covering several areas in which psychedelics are being used outside the clinic. There’s an array of companies and leaders working with master plants and psychedelics in a variety of…

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American Medical Association (AMA) says safe drug consumption sites save lives by reducing risky behaviors and overdose deaths

In a little-noticed section of a report on the nation’s worsening drug overdose epidemic released late last year, the American Medical Association (AMA) urged states and local communities to consider allowing overdose prevention sites [OPS]… to operate as a public health strategy. “At this point in the nation’s epidemic, the AMA urges states and communities…

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If…

If I was in charge of drug policy, first I’d acknowledge that our current criminalized drug scheduling system is based on nothing but ignorance and bigotry and issue an apology for all the harms caused by the policies of prohibition and criminalization. I’d get rid of the drug schedule system entirely. I’d immediately end all…

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