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Portland (AFP) - When police officer Eli Arnold stops a homeless man smoking methamphetamine on the street in Portland, he simply writes him a ticket with a $100 fine. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, just the fine and a card with a telephone number where the user can get help. "Give them the ticket number and they'll just ask you if you want treatment," he tells the man. "Just call the number, the ticket goes away." In February 2021, possession and use of all drugs -- including cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and fentanyl -- was decriminalized in ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Masks will have to be worn outside in Oregon, the state's governor announced Tuesday, as the United States grapples with a surge in Covid-19 cases. The mandate, which takes effect Friday, makes the northwestern state the first in the country to re-introduce a rule that was common during the darkest days of the pandemic. "The Delta variant is spreading fast and wide, throwing our state into a level of crisis we have not yet seen in the pandemic," said Governor Kate Brown. "Cases and hospitalizations are at a record high," she said. A 2019 study found Oregon has among the lo...
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Portland (AFP) - As a hotly contested election highlights the United States's deep divisions, rural voters in liberal blue-state Oregon have approved a radical solution -- splitting off to join neighboring deep-red conservative Idaho.Two conservative counties voted in favor of a non-binding measure to "Move Oregon's Borders" during Tuesday's polls, which also saw their northwestern US state predictably vote for Joe Biden in the race for president."In the United States, the differences between liberal and conservative... there's hatred there," said chief petitioner Mike McCarter, of the votes i...
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Washington (AFP) - The FBI on Friday denounced numerous false claims that "extremists" are intentionally setting fires in Oregon, saying the misinformation is hampering efforts to bring devastating wildfires under control.Oregon is one of several US western states facing wildfires that have left more than a dozen people dead and pushed hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.Social media users have sought to link the blazes to Antifa, a structureless movement that says it is dedicated to fighting fascism online and in public, and which is a favored target of conservatives."Conspiracy theorie...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Hundreds of homes have been lost to massive and unprecedented Oregon wildfires with a potentially historic number of fatalities feared in the northwestern US state, governor Kate Brown said Wednesday.More than 300,000 acres are burning across Oregon including 35 major wildfires, with at least five towns "substantially destroyed" and mass evacuations taking place."This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our state's history," Brown told a press conference. Along with neighboring California and Washington states, Oregon has been scramblin...
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