We’re Making History - the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act makes the 2020 ballot in Oregon!
The Oregon Secretary of State has confirmed that our partners in Oregon have more than enough signatures for The Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act to make it on the November ballot.
This groundbreaking measure imagines a better way forward - instead of arresting and jailing people for drugs, it will offer help to those who need and want it. In this moment of a pandemic and collective action against systemic racism, drug policy reform is more urgent than ever.
Simple drug possession is the single most arrested offense in the country. Policing and enforcement of the drug war has always been racially targeted, with a particularly cruel impact on generations of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people. And incarceration is also a dangerous vulnerability in the fight against COVID-19 – for people in jails and prisons and in the surrounding community.
If approved in November, this measure would decriminalize simple drug possession and expand access across the state to drug treatment and health services, paid for with a portion of taxes from legal marijuana sales.
Victory in Oregon can reverberate across the nation and demonstrate that effective, compassionate alternatives to arrest, prosecution, and incarceration are indeed possible.
And we need your support to continue to decriminalize drugs nationally. Please make a donation today to help us end the criminalization of drugs and the people who use them.
You can help us build an alternative where we eliminate drugs as an excuse for excessive policing and punishment, and redirect resources to services that support people and save lives. Please donate now.
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Thank you, Theshia Naidoo Managing Director, Criminal Justice Law and Policy Drug Policy Alliance |
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