Matt Sutton: Drug Decriminalization
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English - December 14, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 21.1 MBPolitics News politics jared adelman contested news news commentary los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.