Andrew Selsky

Gina Gratza, a trainer for students learning how to become psilocybin facilitators, shows the items that she would have at a dosing session, including mats, a pillow, a purge bucket, a sketch pad with colored pencils and tissues during a class near Damascus, Ore., on Dec. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Have a safe trip: Oregon trains magic mushroom facilitators

December 23, 2022 at 8:56 a.m.

Oregon will begin allowing licensed, regulated use of psychedelic mushrooms in 2023. Ahead of the legal rollout, a Portland company is training facilitators who will be a reassuring presence for...

FILE—Vanessa Caudel, a nurse, sits at ...

Critics: Oregon鈥檚 move to decriminalize hard drugs a failure

September 25, 2022 at 11:17 a.m.

Two years after Oregon residents voted to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to treatment, few people have requested the services and the state has been...

Oregon decriminalized drugs in 2020: How鈥檚 it going?

April 3, 2022 at 11:06 a.m.

Oregon voters approved a ballot measure in 2020 to decriminalize hard drugs after being told it was a way to establish and fund addiction recovery centers that would offer people...

Anne Muilenburg, right, and Debra Cross ...

Cities wracked by opioids close to getting $26B settlement

December 14, 2021 at 1:29 p.m.

The opioid epidemic blew into this picturesque Oregon town like a toxic wind, leaving overdoses, addiction, homelessness and wrecked families in its wake.

Illegal marijuana farms take West’s water in “blatant theft”

September 17, 2021 at 12:06 p.m.

Jack Dwyer pursued a dream of getting back to the land by moving in 1972 to an idyllic, tree-studded parcel in Oregon with a creek running through it.

Hundreds believed dead in heat wave despite efforts to help

July 1, 2021 at 5:46 p.m.

Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly — one as old as 97. The body of an immigrant farm laborer...

Amid clamor to increase prescribed burns, obstacles await

June 22, 2021 at 8:12 a.m.

In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many people thought he was nuts.

FILE – In this March 29, 2021, file photo, UM-Flint nursing student Michaela Dimello helps administer the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Genesee County residents at Bishop Airport in Flint, Mich. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that the percentage of Americans resisting getting inoculated has shrunk in the past few months. But it’s still not enough to pull America out of the pandemic, and reach herd immunity. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)

Many still hesitate to get vaccine, but reluctance is easing

April 2, 2021 at 8:16 p.m.

The race is on to vaccinate as many people as possible, but a significant number of Americans are so far reluctant to get the shots, even in places where they...

FILE – In this June 26, 2020, file photo taken from video, provided by the Yes on Measure 110 Campaign, volunteers deliver boxes containing signed petitions in favor of the measure to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office in Salem, Ore. The measure said the U.S., possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other hard drugs would be decriminalized in Oregon. Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine and other hard drugs as the ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (Yes on Measure 110 Campaign via AP, File)

Oregon 1st state to decriminalize possession of drugs

February 1, 2021 at 3:49 p.m.

Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect...

FILE – In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, a plume rises over a vineyard in unincorporated Napa County, Calif., as the Hennessey Fire burns. Smoke from the West Coast wildfires has tainted grapes in some of the nation’s most celebrated wine regions. The resulting ashy flavor could spell disaster for the 2020 vintage. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Wildfires taint West Coast vineyards with taste of smoke

September 24, 2020 at 9:06 p.m.

Smoke from the West Coast wildfires has tainted grapes in some of the nation's most celebrated wine regions with an ashy flavor that could spell disaster for the 2020 vintage.

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