Less than three months before Oregon is set to recriminalize drug possession, a handful of Portland-area leaders are drafting a plan in closed-door meetings that critics argue would largely maintain the status quo in the state’s most populous county. “I think the assumption by most people was this was actually going to lead to people…
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News Thai pro-cannabis advocates rally as government moves to recriminalize
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he would like cannabis to be relisted as a narcotic again by the end of this year. The pro-cannabis group that rallied at the Thai health ministry said they agreed cannabis should be properly regulated, but that doesn’t require the rescheduling of the plant as a narcotic. Health minister Somsak…
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News To Revive Portland, Officials Seek to Recriminalize Public Drug Use
After years of rising overdoses and an exodus of business from central Portland, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said on Monday that state and city officials are proposing to roll back a portion of the nation’s most wide-ranging drug decriminalization law in a bid to revive the troubled city. Under the plan brokered by Gov. Kotek,…
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