Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which decriminalized the possession of all drugs, including cocaine, meth, and heroin. In February 2021, the measure went into effect. “Now, if you ...
Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia is ending its three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of ...
In 2020, Oregon became the first state in America to decriminalize all drugs. Was it a catastrophic mistake? Has this famously progressive city been mugged by reality? Reason visited Portland and ...
The three-year pilot program did not deliver the results hoped for, the health minister said. It had allowed drug users to ...
Ann Arbor, June 19, 2023 – De facto decriminalization of drug possession may be a good first step in addressing the disproportionate impact of an overburdened United States criminal justice system on ...
Ever since Portugal enacted drug decriminalization in 2001, reformers have argued that North America should follow suit. The Portuguese saw precipitous declines in overdoses and blood-borne infections ...
The World Health Organization, which serves as the health authority for the United Nations, is calling for lawmakers across the globe to reform their nation’s drug policies. Earlier this month, the ...
For years, critics have blamed Oregon’s 2020 ballot measure that decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs for the state’s rising crime and overdose rates. But a new study suggests otherwise ...
The premier of British Columbia — a Canadian province that’s a mecca of open-air drug use and supervised injection sites — has admitted decriminalizing drugs was a mistake. “I was wrong on drug ...
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