Gov. Brown signed the 'Right to Try' bill into law on August 12th

The argument was, "Terminal patients shouldn't have to ask government for permission to try to save their own lives." At the end of the legislative session, Oregon’s Right to Try bill, HB 2300 B, passed 29-0 in the Senate and was re-passed with some restrictive amendments in the House by 60-0. Now, with Governor Brown's signature, the law goes into effect on January 1, 2016 and will give some terminally ill Oregonians the Right to Try experimental drugs and devices not yet approved by the FDA. --Cascade Policy Institute founder Steve Buckstein noted, “The final bill is more restrictive than similar statutes in 21 other states (with its 18-year-old minimum age limit and its six-months to expected death definition of terminal illness), but it’s a good start and hopefully can be expanded in the future to cover children and people who have terminal illnesses such as ALS where patients may live for a number of years.”

Read more at Cascade Policy Institute