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In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offenses, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other hard drugs.

“Today’s victory is a landmark declaration that the time has come to stop criminalizing people for drug use,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which was behind the measure. “Measure 110 is arguably the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date.”

The measure completely changes how Oregon’s justice system treats those who are found with personal-use amounts of the hard drugs.

Instead of going to trial and facing possible jail time, a person would have the option of paying a $100 fine or attending new “addiction recovery centers” funded by millions of dollars of tax revenue from Oregon’s legalized, regulated marijuana industry.
The passage of the measure makes Oregon, which in 1973 became the first state to decriminalize marijuana possession, a pioneer in America in trying the same with hard drugs. The measure takes effect 30 days after Tuesday’s election, but the punishment changes don’t take effect until Feb. 1. Addiction recovery centers must be available by Oct. 1.

It may sound like a radical concept, but the initiative’s backers said making criminals out of drug users — locking them up and burdening them with criminal records that made it difficult to find housing and jobs — was not working.

One in 11 Oregonians is addicted to drugs, and nearly two people die every day from overdoses in the state, the Oregon Nurses Association, the Oregon Chapter American College of Physicians and the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians had said in support of the measure.

“We urgently need a change to save families and save lives,” they wrote.

About 3,700 fewer Oregonians per year will be convicted of felony or misdemeanor possession of controlled substances now that the measure has passed, according to estimates by the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.

The measure will also likely lead to significant reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in both convictions and arrests, the commission, which is an official state agency, said.

While this approach is new in the United States, several countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have already decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs, according to the United Nations.

Portugal’s 2000 decriminalization brought no surge in drug use. Drug deaths fell while the number of people treated for drug addiction in the country rose 20% from 2001 to 2008 and then stabilized, Portuguese officials have said.

This is such a big step in moving to a health-based approach instead of criminal punishment, and we’re devoting significant new resources to help Oregonians who need it,” said Janie Gullickson, co-chief petitioner of Measure 110.

The measure was being approved by 59% of roughly 2 million votes counted so far, according to the secretary of state’s office.
Two dozen district attorneys said the measure was reckless and would lead to an increase in the acceptability of dangerous drugs. Two other district attorneys, including the one in Oregon’s most populous county and that includes Portland, backed the measure, as did a district attorney-elect.

The measure does not apply retroactively to past convictions, but there may be efforts through the Legislature to expunge those criminal records, which the Drug Policy Alliance would support, said its spokesman, Matt Sutton.

Oregon voters on Tuesday also legalized therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms, with a two-year development period. War veterans with PTSD, terminally ill patients and others suffering from anxiety had voiced support.

The measure requires the Oregon Health Authority to allow licensed, regulated production and possession of psilocybin, exclusively for administration by licensed facilitators to clients.

Before Tuesday’s elections, Oregon was among 11 states as well as Washington, D.C., that had legalized marijuana.

Several other states are following suit. Voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota all approved ballot measures Tuesday legalizing marijuana for adults.

 

Graziani

TRUMP BACK TO WHITE HOUSE
I dont need drugs to feel pleasure in my brain chemistry.
Pleasure has a limit by my choices of my routine. I am responsable for my routine. I built my daily routine
 

McM

ARSELING
I dont need drugs to feel pleasure in my brain chemistry.
Pleasure has a limit by my choices of my routine. I am responsable for my routine. I built my daily routine
And what has that to do with the news from Oregon?
You're telling this since 6 years about once a month. Not funny/interesting anymore. and you sound like an uneducated grandpa.
Please, set it as your signature., so I can disable it. Don't forget the crap about fucking ass.
 

Dr. Johnny Fever

aka Bill Murray
You wanna get rid of crime from drugs, make em free...
I’m not sure I want them free but I’m fine with decriminalizing personal possession for all drugs and making it legal to buy from government operated or licensed dispensaries. Make the civil forfeiture and prison sentences severe for distribution and manufacturing but leave the users alone.
 

Brainfart

Don't take what I say seriously...
Free shit for junkies to stop them stealing.

you're a special kind of retard aren't you?
You are as dumb as a paper bag full of shit...you have no right to try and take the high ground O simple forklift driver...
 

SPHINCTERPUNCH

THE SPHINCTER PUNCHER!
there is a percentage of young people who destroy themselves by drugs. this number is within an acceptable value. they are young people who will die early, and will not produce anything for society. This is part of human race.
Makes sense to Me! U can B sensitive about it,Or U can see it as I do! And I say Fuck-em! They Know Better,But do it anyway! So let's Chalk-em up! Lmao...SP
 

Totentanz

Lurking Lurker
They have made many people in genuine chronic pain go the street for illegal drugs as "Pain Specialists" require obscene money and degrading rules such as watched monthly piss tests... For a small amount of legal medicine.

Suicide rates for chronic pain sufferers have greatly increased (I even talked to a local elderly PS after she closed shop due to excessive new rules she didnt want to deal with at her age and she related to me the first hand account of no less than 3 former patients who could not get relief after she closed a year ago and became suicide statistics in the War on Drugs).
Why should so many people suffer post surgery and for chronic pain due to the actions of dip shits OD-ing?
Why is my own father laying in bed almost all day hurting from worn out knees and collapsed spine sections because his doctor "can't" give him 3 hydrocodone a day?

Its wrong to force people to be in pain or go to the streets' unsafe illegal drugs and only costs our medical and Social Securities Disability dept more money due to people unable to work because of under medication and unrelenting pain.
Meanwhile these suffering patients are given 3, 4, or 5 other meds whose side effects *might* help with some of the pain with no consideration of the co-mingling of all these diff drugs and their long term effects on the body.

I see a future of lawsuits from people hurt by all these unnecessary meds where one mild opioid pill 3 times a day would have helped more with fewer side effects.

Shits bad in the US. And I fear I will lose my father before practical patient friendly pain care again becomes a thing in the US.
 

Lovinight

Seeker of Truth!
did these fucking idiot states elect the Mexican cartels in?
If all the states did this, it would destroy the financial incentive to get involved in the manufacture and distribution of these substances, the profit margin would go way down if there was no risk involved.
 

Lovinight

Seeker of Truth!
Chances are Mr Gates would want to get his hands on all the shroomies and genetically alter them like has been done to marijuana, shit like this is never done in favor of the people, there is always an agenda behind EVERYTHING!
 
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