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Under the new law, possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill Monday restoring criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of hard drugs, reversing a first-in-the-nation law that advocates had hoped would help quell a deepening addiction and overdose crisis.

Under the new law, the possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail. 

Drug treatment will be offered as an alternative to criminal penalties.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They decriminalized without a real plan to help people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

100x this. They copied other plans but skipped the extensive, expensive rehabilitation part. We should have ponied up the money and done it right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think having no plan is still better than throwing people in jail for this lol

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They had the plan, they just neither funded nor implemented it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Don't forget the fact that many of the idiots who live near Idaho actively boycott legislative sessions because being reasonable makes them sad.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The elected officials of Oregon failed and now they are covering for their failure by undoing the will of the voters instead of enacting the will of the voters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I don't even get how they have the authority to do this. Measure 110 was enacted as an amendment to the Oregon constitution, so it seems like it would require another amendment to rescind that and recriminalize possession.