{"id":2017123,"date":"2023-08-30T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-residents-work-to-unravel-drug-law-that-decriminalized-heroin-and-meth-possession\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:20:20","slug":"oregon-residents-work-to-unravel-drug-law-that-decriminalized-heroin-and-meth-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-residents-work-to-unravel-drug-law-that-decriminalized-heroin-and-meth-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon residents seek clarity on drug law that decriminalized heroin and meth possession."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foregon-residents-work-to-unravel-drug-law-that-decriminalized-heroin-and-meth-possession%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A \u2064Multicounty Alliance in Oregon Aims to Revise \u200bDrug\u2063 Decriminalization Measure<\/h2>\n<p>A dynamic \u2062alliance consisting\u200d of political, civic, and business \u2062leaders in Oregon is actively working to bring \u2064about \u2064changes to a state measure that has significantly reduced penalties \u200dfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">drug charges<\/a> and effectively \u2063decriminalized drug \u2063possession. The measure, which was passed three\u2062 years ago, \u200beliminated criminal\u200c penalties for possessing small\u200c amounts of any drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-residents-work-to-unravel-drug-law-that-decriminalized-heroin-and-meth-possession\/\" title=\"Oregon residents seek clarity on drug law that decriminalized heroin and meth possession.\">treating minor \u2064drug \u2062possession<\/a> as a misdemeanor crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We\u200c are seeking to fix and improve Measure 110,&#8221; \u200cstated Max Williams, a former state lawmaker and previous director of the Oregon Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Measure 110,\u200c which decriminalized hard\u200d drugs in Oregon, has faced opposition from a majority\u2063 of voters who now want\u200b the measure \u200bcompletely repealed. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-poll-majority-of-americans-less-likely-to-support-disney-over-woke-politics-firing-of-gina-carano\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE POLL: Majority Of Americans Less Likely To Support Disney Over Woke Politics, Firing Of Gina Carano\">recent survey conducted<\/a> by Emerson College Polling, 56% of registered Oregon voters prefer the law to\u2063 be repealed. Washington County District \u2062Attorney Kevin Barton has joined the movement to revise\u200c the law, highlighting\u2062 that the promised results of the \u200dmeasure, \u200csuch as increased access to treatment, have not been seen \u2063by the voters.\u200d In fact, there has been an\u2062 increase in\u200b crime, as reported by Williams, who previously served as CEO of the Oregon Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the first \u2064detox \u200dcenter funded by Measure 110 opened in Portland, redirecting taxes to \u2062support \u2063drug \u200btreatment programs.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition is proposing a short session or \u200da special session in 2024 for lawmakers\u200d to\u200b review the suggested\u2064 revisions. In the event\u2064 that the legislature does not take up\u2062 the session, the group is actively raising funds for a potential \u2064ballot \u200bmeasure next \u200dfall.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the alliance aims to remove oversight\u200d from the Oregon Health Authority\u200d and the Oversight and Accountability Council, which currently oversee\u2063 the distribution of grant\u200b funds from \u2064Measure 110. Instead,\u200b they propose that \u2064a reconstructed Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission take on this role.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay Informed:<\/h3>\n<p>For more information on this topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">click here<\/a> to \u200cread more \u200dfrom the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>drugs. Oregon&#8217;s multicounty alliance seeks to revise a state measure that decriminalized drug possession three years ago. Comprising political, civic, and business leaders, the group aims to scale back certain aspects of the measure, which eliminated criminal penalties for possessing small quantities of drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}