Why Oregon's Going From Drug Decriminalization To Recriminalization
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Oregon’s legislature has reintroduced criminal penalties for hard drug possession, effectively reversing course three years after voters passed the state’s Measure 110 and decriminalized possession in many cases. Many describe the reversal as a big setback for the criminal justice reform movement. But to understand how we got here, we look at where Oregon fell short in its implementation of Measure 110.
Israel boycotted ceasefire talks in Cairo on Sunday after Hamas refused a demand to provide a list of all the hostages who are still alive and in their captivity. Meanwhile as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to worsen, the U.S. carried out its first airdrop of aid supplies into the region.
And in headlines: CVS and Walgreens will start dispensing abortion pills, Caitlin Clark shatters an NCAA scoring record, and Donald Gorske shatters a McDonald’s eating record.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 4th. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Trevel Anderson. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:07.0 | where we're saluting Riana for securing a reported 6.3 million dollar |
| 0:11.0 | payment for performing at a wedding. |
| 0:13.0 | Technically it was a pre-wetting celebration for the son of India's richest man, |
| 0:18.5 | but the lesson here everybody is, know your worth. |
| 0:22.0 | I will sing Rihanna songs at a wedding for access to the |
| 0:25.4 | buffet. That's my worst. Josie we gonna have to work on that. On today's show |
| 0:31.9 | we break down my organ lawmakers are about to recriminalize some drug possession, |
| 0:36.7 | after voters decriminalized it three years ago. |
| 0:39.7 | Plus, abortion bills will soon be available at many CVS and Walgreen stores across the country. |
| 0:44.5 | But first an update on the war in Gaza from the bleak outlook for the current ceasefire talks |
| 0:50.0 | to more calls for an immediate ceasefire, one of which came yesterday from Vice President |
| 0:55.6 | Kamala Harris. |
| 0:56.6 | Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire. |
| 1:05.6 | For at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table. This will get the |
| 1:17.2 | hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in. |
| 1:23.9 | This would allow us to build something more enduring, |
| 1:28.0 | to ensure Israel is secure, |
| 1:31.1 | and to respect the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination. |
| 1:40.0 | Hamas claims it wants a ceasefire. Well there is a deal on the table and as we have |
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