✅ Oregon Health Authority will conduct an audit this month of the state's Medicaid insurers and coordinated care organizations to check if they are offering gender-affirming care, as required by a House bill passed last year. (Willamette Week)
🍄 Sixteen cities, including Lake Oswego and some unincorporated areas of Clackamas County, will ask voters this November if they want to ban psilocybin within their jurisdictions.
Oregon was the first state to legalize the psychedelic in 2020. (OPB)
⚽️ Morgan Weaver, a forward for the Thorns, was OK'd to play in the team's home game against the Chicago Red Stars tomorrow after undergoing knee surgery in May.
She also signed a five-year contract extension. (The Oregonian)
The Oregon Department of Corrections is struggling to stop the illicit flow of drugs into prisons and the resulting increase in fatal overdoses among inmates. (Portland Mercury)
