The new law will decriminalize 'small amounts' of hard drugs such as less than 1 gram of heroin or MDMA; 2 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; and 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone and allow those caught in possession to avoid jail time. Those ...
The state will now be the first in the country to legalize therapeutic use of psilocybin, a.k.a.shrooms. This was made possible by the passing of Ballot Measure 109,perthe Associated Press, which will bring about the manufacturing and controlled use of psilocybin after receiving approximatel...
In another first, Oregon also decriminalized small amounts of hard drugs—heroin, cocaine, and LSD included. The initiative was championed for much the same reason as cannabis legalization efforts: to keep people out of prison and to open up alternative options for medical ...
Oregon would not vote to legalize weed for another twenty-eight years, when it earned 56 percent of the vote in 2014. Six years later, McVay sees Measure 110 as evidence of how far the movement has come. “I’m just disappointed it took this long. I knew it’d happen . . . ...
In 1994, Oregon became the first U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide through the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. A measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oregon was approved on November 4, 2014, making Oregon only the second state at the time to have legalized gay...