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In 2020, Oregon voters put a lot of stock in Measure 110 — the groundbreaking citizen initiative that made the state the first in the nation to decriminalize user amounts of drugs. The ...

The audit found issues with the implementation and evaluation of the state’s landmark drug decriminalization law.

Spectroscopic data on alkali-atom dimers residing on the surface of liquid helium nanodroplets have revealed that they are detected primarily in the weakly bound, metastable, spin-triplet state. Here, ...

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School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China Introduction: In measuring initial velocity, light screen detectors (LSD) are positioned closer to the ...

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Changes to Measure 110 took effect Sept. 1, which recriminalizes drug possession to a misdemeanor charge and includes the implementation of a state-funded deflection program. The state allocated ...

The reversal of Measure 110 became a law in Oregon on September 1. Lane County's deflection program, which will connect people to treatment instead of taking them directly to jail, will not launch ...

As the start date for Oregon's new law recriminalizing drug possession nears, more than a half dozen counties have not set up programs for people arrested with narcotics to avoid immediate jail time.

Leaders from Multnomah County and the city of Portland outlined their plans Wednesday to address drug possession after a new criminal charge goes into effect statewide in September. “We must offer ...