Endless revolving door: Blue state will recriminalize drugs, but one key official is looking for a loophole [Video]

Less than three months before Oregon is set to recriminalize drug possession, a handful of Portland-area leaders are drafting a plan in closed-door meetings that critics argue would largely maintain the status quo in the state’s most populous county.

“I think the assumption by most people was this was actually going to lead to people actually getting access to treatment as an alternative to arrest, but if they didn’t want treatment, they were going to be arrested,” Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards told KOIN 6 News.

Instead, the proposal, which has not yet been shared publicly, includes “an endless revolving door” and little direct access to treatment, Brim-Edwards said.

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Oregonians voted to decriminalize possession of all drugs in 2020 and redirected tens of millions in marijuana tax revenue to fund addiction services. People caught with user amounts of substances like …