Contested Politics
Contested Politics
Jared Adelman
Matt Sutton: Drug Decriminalization
24 minutes Posted Dec 14, 2020 at 2:51 pm.
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This past election day, Oregon passed an initiative to decriminalize all drugs. In general, drug decriminalization has become a staple ballot initiative, with many states across the nation now permitting marijuana usage of some kind. But what is drug decriminalization and how is it different than drug legalization? To answer all these questions, Matt Sutton from the Drug Policy Alliance explains what happened in Oregon and where the conversation about drugs goes from here.