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  1. Where Oregon stands in the drug war

    As other states move to defelonize drug possession, Oregon still has harsh marijuana laws on the books. Drug Policy Alliance’s Ellen Flenniken discusses drug reform in our state and worldwide. Ellen Flenniken grew up in the small, rural town of Brenham, a ...

    19 May 2016 - Emily Green

  2. How an ex-prosecutor became one of Oregon's fiercest drug-legalization advocates

    Inge Fryklund talks about U.S. soldiers caught in Afghanistan’s poppy wars As a Chicago prosecutor in the 1980s, Inge Fryklund witnessed drug prohibition play out in the American courtroom. Decades later, as an adviser to U.S. military deploying to Iraq a ...

    24 Sep 2015 - Emily Green

  3. Street Roots editorial: Portland needs safe drug injection site

    Invest in a solution that works, even if it's controversial This past year, there were 122 heroin-related deaths in Oregon, with 80 in Portland’s tri-county area. According to county officials, heroin use in our city has increased steadily over the p ...

    27 Aug 2015 - SR editorial board

  4. Safe-injection sites: Seeking a solution to public IV drug use

    As public drug injection draws criticism in Portland, other U.S. cities fight for a controversial solution On the concrete floor of a public restroom, inside a parking garage in Portland’s Old Town, a heroin addict took his last breaths. He was overdosing ...

    27 Aug 2015 - Emily Green

  5. Johann Hari: 'the biggest moral issue about the war on drugs'

    Killing is inevitable when drug market is controlled by criminals rather than regulators, argues author of ‘Chasing the Scream’ After spending a hundred years and a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs, there’s one thing we know for certain: Prohibi ...

    20 Aug 2015 - Emily Green

  6. Drugs aren't the problem, Columbia researcher says

    Most users are responsible, says Carl Hart, who wants to change attitudes and policies about drugs Carl Hart wants us to think differently about drugs. A neuropsychopharmacologist from Columbia University — meaning he’s a researcher and teacher on the eff ...

    9 Aug 2015 - Katie Hyslop

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