"We can't nibble around the edges on this. People's lives have been destroyed," says Tera Hurst, executive director of the Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance, which campaigned last year to pass decriminalization and is now pushing to see it's fully funded and implemented. "The War on Drugs has been primarily really waged on communities of color.
"We can't nibble around the edges on this," she says. Tera Hurst, executive director of the Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance, says the state's decriminalization marks bold systemic change. And while critics everywhere have long called the drug war a racist, inhumane fiasco that fails to deliver justice or health, Oregon is the first to take a leap toward radically changing those systems.
drug policy, expands funding and access to addiction treatment services using tax revenue from the state's pot industry as well as from expected savings from a reduction in arrests and incarceration.įor years Oregon has ranked near the top of states with the highest rates of drug and alcohol addiction and near the very bottom nationally in access to recovery services. The measure, a major victory for advocates pushing for systemic change in U.S. That fee can get waived if you get a health screening from a recovery hotline. Oregonians overwhelmingly passed Measure 110 that makes possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, LSD and methamphetamine, among other drugs, punishable by a civil citation - akin to a parking ticket - and a $100 fine. The War On Drugs: 50 Years Later Overdose Deaths Rose During The War On Drugs, But Efforts To Reduce Them Face Backlash
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