Last week, the Oregon legislature passed HB 4002 which rolls back Measure 110, recriminalizes drug possession, and returns to the failed approach of arresting and jailing people for drugs. The Governor confirmed she will sign it. But our fight to replace criminalization with care continues.

President Biden was right to mention the devastating toll of fentanyl-related overdoses and the harms of marijuana criminalization. But his proposed solutions — fentanyl crackdowns and watered-down marijuana reform — won’t address the suffering in our communities. We outlined steps Biden can take to champion a health approach instead.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, and ten of their colleagues, sent a letter to the Biden Administration in support of marijuana descheduling. The letter urges the DEA to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, in light of President Biden’s order to revisit marijuana’s status on the federal drug schedules.