What Oregon leaders, mulling Measure 110 changes, learned from a trip to Portugal

In late October, two dozen Oregon policymakers, advocates, police and prosecutors landed in Lisbon, Portugal, to learn about that nation’s two-decade-old drug decriminalization law.
They arrived a few days after reporter Noelle Crombie, who traveled to the country independently to do much the same.
The fact-finding missions come as the voting public has soured on Oregon’s Measure 110, a decriminalization law approved by voters two years ago. Now, as as the potent and addictive drug fentanyl has proliferated and overdoses have skyrocketed, polls suggest a majority favor a full or partial repeal.
Some of Crombie’s stories from Portugal, and back in Oregon:

Oregon leaders tasked to act on Measure 110, fentanyl went to Portugal in search of answers. Here’s what they found

Debate over Measure 110′s future heats up as lawmakers mull reforms

Push to ‘fix’ Measure 110, make drug possession a crime again, ramps up with powerful support


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