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COVID-19 data for Monday, Feb. 1:
Editor’s note: Cases reported Monday include
data from Saturday and Sunday, when the state
was conducting computer maintenance.
Deschutes County cases: 5,434 (31 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 45 (0 new deaths)
Crook County cases: 692 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 15 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,777 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 25 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 143,373 (964 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 1,958 (1 new death)
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touching your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick
people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others
and wear a mask. 6. Cough into your elbow. 7. Clean and
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LOCAL
VACCINATIONS
22,423
Number of vaccinations
given by St. Charles
Healvth System
120
110
100
90 new cases
State computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
70
60
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
7-day
average
average
40
31 new cases
28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
90
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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LOCAL BRIEFING
Pioneering new law takes effect
Police can no longer
arrest someone for
possession of small
amounts of heroin,
meth and more
BY ANDREW SELSKY
The Associated Press
DECRIMINALIZATION
OF HARD
DRUGS DRUCS
DECRIMINALIZATION
OF HARD
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Bend-La Pine will offer
free meals into June
Classrooms are starting
to reopen in Bend-La Pine
Schools, but one distance
learning-era staple will re-
main through the end of
the school year: free meals.
Bend-La Pine will keep
offering three free meals
per day — both for stu-
dents learning in-person
inside their schools, and at
pick-up sites for families
still choosing to learn at
home, according to a school
district press release.
There are now only three
meal pick-up locations:
Bend, Mountain View and
La Pine high schools, the re-
lease stated. Brown bag meals
can be picked up at those
schools from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. on weekdays.
The school district has
served nearly 1.3 million
free meals to students since
it began offering them in
mid-March, at the onset of
the pandemic, according to
the release.
SALEM — Police in Oregon
can no longer arrest some-
one for possession of small
amounts of heroin, metham-
phetamine, LSD, oxycodone
and other hard drugs as a
ballot measure that decrim-
inalized them took effect on
Monday.
Instead, those found in pos-
Yes on Measure 110 Campaign via AP, file
session would face a $100 fine Volunteers deliver boxes containing signed petitions in favor of Measure 110 on June 26 to the Oregon Sec-
or a health assessment that
retary of State’s Office in Salem. Police can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of her-
could lead to addiction coun-
oin, methamphetamine and other hard drugs as the measure that decriminalized them took effect Monday.
seling. Backers of the ballot
measure decriminalizing hard covery Services Fund.”
Oregon is a pioneer in lib-
session. In 2014, Oregon vot-
drugs, which Oregon voters
The fund will be awash in
eralizing drug laws. It was
ers passed a ballot measure
passed by a wide margin in
money if the sales trend for
the first state, in 1973, to de-
legalizing recreational use of
Bulletin staff report
November, hailed it as a revo-
marijuana continues as ex-
criminalize marijuana pos-
marijuana.
lutionary move for the United pected.
States.
In the 2020 fiscal year, mar-
“Today, the first domino of
ijuana tax revenues peaked at
our cruel and inhumane war
$133 million, a 30% increase
on drugs has fallen, setting off over the previous year, and
what we expect to be a cas-
a 545% increase over 2016,
cade of other efforts centering when pot taxes began being
health over criminalization,”
collected from legal, registered
said Kassandra Frederique,
recreational marijuana enter-
executive director of the Drug prises around the state.
Policy Alliance, which spear-
The other recipients of pot
headed the ballot initiative.
tax revenues are now saying
We
premier
We are
are Central
Central Oregon’s
Oregon's premier
Ballot Measure 110’s back-
that, after assessment and re-
ers said treatment needs to be
lated treatment options are set
providers
providers for
for ear,
ear, nose,
nose, and
and throat
throat
the priority and that crimi-
up, the distribution of those
nalizing drug possession was
revenues will deserve another
and
and hearing
hearing care
care. .
not working. Besides facing
look. A leading lawmaker
the prospect of being locked
agrees.
up, having a criminal record
“In the future, as Oregon’s
makes it difficult to find hous- treatment programs reach
ing and jobs and can haunt a
full funding, the state should
person for a lifetime.
evaluate what other services
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Two dozen district attor-
would benefit from our con-
neys had opposed the mea-
tinually growing marijuana
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sure, saying it was reckless and tax revenues,” Oregon Edu-
would lead to an increase in
cation Association President
• Ear/sinus
issues
Ear/sinus issues
the acceptabil-
John Larson
ity of dangerous
said in an email.
• Vertigo
Vertigo episodes
episodes
“Today, the first
drugs.
Larson said
Instead of fac-
• Earwax
removal
Earwax removal
domino of our cruel a “balanced ap-
ing arrest, those
proach to bud-
and inhumane war geting” will
found by law en-
• Abscesses
Abscesses
forcement with
support
com-
on drugs has fallen, munities and
personal-use
• Nosebleeds
Nosebleeds
amounts of
setting off what we students. The
Hearing test
• Hearing
test
drugs would face
OEA union rep-
expect to be a cascade resents about
a civil citation,
• Allergy
Allergy consultation
consultation
“like a traffic
44,000 educa-
of other efforts
ticket,” and not a
tors.
• Telehealth
Telehealth appointments
appointments
criminal citation, centering health over
State Sen.
Floyd Prozanski,
said Matt Sutton,
criminalization”
chair of the Sen-
spokesman for
ate Committee
the Drug Policy
— Kassandra Frederique,
On Judiciary
Alliance.
executive director of the
and Ballot Mea-
Under the new
Drug Policy Alliance
sure 110 Imple-
system, addic-
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mentation, said
tion recovery
he expects Oregon’s cannabis
centers will be “triaging the
acute needs of people who use tax revenues to increase expo-
nentially if recreational mar-
drugs and assessing and ad-
Central
Oregon Ear,
Ear, Nose
Nose & & Throat
Throat
Central Oregon
ijuana in the United States is
dressing any on going needs
legalized. He expects that to
thorough intensive case man-
is
to announce
announce same-day
same-day
is excited
excited to
happen within four years.
agement and linkage to care
appointments
available!
appointments
available!
That would make the Drug
and services.”
The addiction recovery cen- Treatment and Recovery Ser-
Myra
Baker,
PA PA
| Physician’s
Myra
Baker,
| Physician's Assistant
Assistant
ters will be funded by millions vices Fund “oversaturated with
revenue” as out-of-state con-
of dollars of tax revenue from
sumers legally buy Oregon’s
Oregon’s legalized marijuana
potent marijuana, Prozanski
industry. That diverts some
said in a telephone interview.
funds from other programs
“It would be foolish for us as
and entities that already re-
a Legislature to think that the
ceive it, like schools.
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