As other states move to defelonize drug possession, Oregon still has harsh marijuana laws on the books. Drug Policy Alliance’s Ellen Flenniken discusses drug reform in our state and worldwide. Ellen Flenniken grew up in the small, rural town of Brenham, a ...
19 May 2016 - Emily Green
Inge Fryklund talks about U.S. soldiers caught in Afghanistan’s poppy wars As a Chicago prosecutor in the 1980s, Inge Fryklund witnessed drug prohibition play out in the American courtroom. Decades later, as an adviser to U.S. military deploying to Iraq a ...
24 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
As public drug injection draws criticism in Portland, other U.S. cities fight for a controversial solution On the concrete floor of a public restroom, inside a parking garage in Portland’s Old Town, a heroin addict took his last breaths. He was overdosing ...
27 Aug 2015 - Emily Green
Killing is inevitable when drug market is controlled by criminals rather than regulators, argues author of ‘Chasing the Scream’ After spending a hundred years and a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs, there’s one thing we know for certain: Prohibi ...
20 Aug 2015 - Emily Green