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This initiative allows those seeking addiction treatment to use police as a resource for help without the threat of arrest. (Shutterstock)
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA Delaware County is joining Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro in launching a new initiative that supports those seeking addiction treatment without the threat of arrest.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Shapiro Tuesday announced the kick-off of the Attorney General s Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) in Delaware County.
LETI is a program that allows individuals seeking treatment for addiction to use local law enforcement as a resource to contact participating treatment partners without the threat of arrest.
LISTEN: How Oregon s New Drug Decriminalization Law Treats Addiction as a Mental Health Issue
We talk with Ron Williams, outreach director at the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, about the new law that went into effect February 1. (No, it doesn t legalize everything.)
By
Gabriel Granillo
2/5/2021 at 5:00am
In November 2020, Oregonians voted to approve
all of the stateâs four ballot measures, including campaign contribution limits, an increase in cigarette tax, and a statewide psilocybin mushroom therapy program. But perhaps the most controversial and progressive was
Measure 110, the Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative, which
decriminalized the personal possession of small amounts of schedule 1Â through 5Â substances like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines. And on February 1, the new law, called the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, went into effect.
The measure takes effect Monday. By
Story to a glance
In 2020, voters approved a measure to decriminalize drugs in the state and provide addiction and recovery services.
The law goes into effect on Feb. 1, reclassifying possession of small amounts of drugs as a civil violation.
Advocates of decriminalization say this is a significant move to ending the war on drugs.
Oregon’s historic measure decriminalizing all drugs goes into effect today, a major victory for advocates in the war against the war on drugs.
“Today, the first domino of our cruel and inhumane war on drugs has fallen setting off what we expect to be a cascade of other efforts centering health over criminalization,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance
What a year! Pandemic, civic unrest, national elections 2020 has been a year of tumult that can t be done with soon enough. But when it comes to drug policy, it wasn t all bad; in fact, a lot of it was pretty darned good. Some of it however was quite tragic Here s our year-end round up of the biggest drug policy stories of the year.
Update: The 2020 top ten list now goes to eleven, with Congress removing the drug conviction question from the federal financial aid for college form. See below.
The Pandemic
Just as it has infiltrated just about every aspect of American life, the coronavirus pandemic has been felt in the world of drugs and drug policy. Social distancing requirements early in the pandemic, precisely at the time drug reform initiative campaigns were typically in the midst of signature-gathering drives proved particularly lethal to marijuana legalization efforts in the Heartland as initiative campaigns in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma all suc
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