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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Give $500,000 to Oregon Ballot Measure Seeking Drug Decriminalization
Willamette Week ^ | October 2, 2020 | Tess Riski

Posted on 10/03/2020 2:50:29 AM PDT by hiho hiho

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $500,000 on Oct. 1 to Ballot Measure 110, which seeks to decriminalize possession of some hard drugs in Oregon.

The measure would also establish a drug addiction treatment and recovery program.

The Chan Zuckerberg donations raise Ballot Measure 110's cash contributions to $1.4 million. In contrast, the ballot's opponents have raised $12,800 in cash contributions and secured a $40,100 loan.

According to the Oregon secretary of state website, this appears to be the first time the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has contributed to an Oregon race or ballot measure. Earlier this year, the group gave a combined $5.5 million to two California ballot measures.

If it passes in November, Measure 110 will make possession of a controlled substance no more than a class E violation, with a maximum fine of $100. The drugs that would be effectively decriminalized include heroin (1 gram or less), cocaine (2 grams or less), methamphetamine (2 grams or less), MDMA (less than 1 gram or five pills), LSD (less than 40 user units), psilocybin (less than 12 grams), methadone (less than 40 user units) and oxycodone (less than 40 pills, tablets or capsules). It would also establish a drug treatment plan funded in part by the state's cannabis tax.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: cocaine; drugdealer; facebook; heroin; mda; narcoterrorism; wod; zuckerberg
"If it passes in November, the ballot measure will make possession of a controlled substance no more than a class E violation."
1 posted on 10/03/2020 2:50:29 AM PDT by hiho hiho
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To: hiho hiho

Rich Liberals that dont have to deal with the repercussions of thier actions


2 posted on 10/03/2020 3:56:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: ronnie raygun

Rich liberals likely doing what their ChiCom masters have instructed.


3 posted on 10/03/2020 4:26:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: hiho hiho

What a neat little package - legalize drugs AND establish addiction recovery centers all in one!
All I need now is a divorce lawyer and a shopping cart for when I lose my family and my home!


4 posted on 10/03/2020 5:14:18 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: hiho hiho

If someone with chronic pain becomes addicted to opiates because a Dr. over medicated them, then they should not go to jail.

If Zuckerberg really wants to set up rehabilitaion programs then good on him.

Unfortunately, everything these oligarch assholes do stinks to high heaven.


5 posted on 10/03/2020 5:17:04 AM PDT by angmo (America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
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To: hiho hiho

While I support some decriminalization, experience in San Francisco has shown it should not be statewide.

Self-sustaining dope user compounds in rural counties might be possible.


6 posted on 10/03/2020 5:27:24 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ZOOKER

I have come across many addicts via a friend in DC.

Junkies fall off the “recovery” wagon easily.


7 posted on 10/03/2020 5:30:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: hiho hiho

And just how will the legal amounts become available?

Mail order from China?


8 posted on 10/03/2020 5:33:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: hiho hiho

Anything to ADVANCE THE CHICOM AGENDA TO WEAKEN AMERICA by all possible means.

Way to go Mark... what a patriot. /sarc


9 posted on 10/03/2020 5:52:32 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ronnie raygun; NobleFree

“Rich liberals likely doing what their ChiCom masters have instructed”.

And consider such “thinking” started effortlessly with marijuana...


10 posted on 10/03/2020 7:29:51 AM PDT by Does so (Kyle RITTENHOUSE neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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To: hiho hiho

The last thing Oregon needs is more drugs.
My female friend living in Portland has given up dating as all the single men are drug users.


11 posted on 10/03/2020 9:00:47 AM PDT by Zathras
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Drug decriminalization worked out so well for California and other doper states needle parks to ensue and mass homeless camps outhouse side walks more taxes to clean it up but never happens.......................................................


12 posted on 10/03/2020 12:06:55 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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