In 2013, Paul Murdoch fell off his roof. “I had so many opioids, I was swimming in them,” Murdoch, owner of Horn Creek Hemp in Southern Oregon, says of his post-surgery medications. “Then my son brought me CBD, and it was like magic.” So Murdoch had an idea: To start growing hemp on his family’s […]Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — As of today, and from here on out, no one caught on Oregon streets possessing small amounts of hard drugs will go to jail. That’s because after years of watching the opioid epidemic rip through the region, in November voters stepped in and overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure making Oregon the first […]Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — One morning this fall, Sary Leu was over it. She grabbed the closest black marker she could find in the little employee break room and wrote the following on the whiteboard: “Swazi journalists, human rights activists and members of parliament are being arrested for speaking out. Small Swazi farmers’ fields are being […]Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon paved the way for marijuana legalization to become the norm in red and blue states alike, and this election, voters there may have started a new national trend. They voted to decriminalize possession of all drugs under small amounts, while also passing a separate ballot measure to allow the use of […]Read More
PORTLAND, ORE. – When marijuana started getting legalized in piecemeal fashion across various states half a decade ago, opponents painted it as a slippery slope: Legalize marijuana, and then what, a society devolving into hard drug use, lawlessness, and vagrancy? On the surface, those predictions look to be coming to fruition this November when Oregon […]Read More
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