A bill that began in the Washington Senate which would lower the threshold for police pursuits in the state has passed the House of Representatives. Seventh
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ashington was one of the first two states to legalize recreational cannabis. That said, lawmakers don t want the state to be among the first two to do so when it comes to all drugs. At the ballot box last November, voters in Oregon approved a measure that decriminalized possession of drugs. All of them. A few months later, in February, Washington found itself in an almost identical position as Oregon, except it wasn t by the will of the people. The state Supreme Court struck down Washington s felony drug possession law, declaring it to be unconstitutional. With that action, drug possession was effectively decriminalized.