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Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.
Multiple articles and experts over the past week have emphasized the racial disparities, surge of arrests, and overall ineffectiveness that will result from recriminalizing drug addiction.
Today, Oregon’s lawmakers knowingly took us backwards. By passing HB 4002 which recriminalizes drug addiction, they chose to send our most vulnerable neighbors to jail instead of treatment.
Today, Oregon’s lawmakers knowingly took us backwards. By passing HB 4002 which recriminalizes drug addiction, they chose to send our most vulnerable neighbors to jail instead of treatment.
