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The California Assembly on Thursday approved a bill passed by the Senate that would identify a pilot program to allow certain state jurisdictions to allow intake sites where other people can use recently illegal drugs in a medically supervised setting.
Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D) bill wiped out the chamber on a 42-28 vote. Because the Assembly committee process was amended, he still wants to return to the Senate for approval after the July recess before potentially heading to the governor’s office.
It’s a multi-year bill for SB 57, which was first introduced in December 2020 and passed the entire Senate in April 2021. Before the last vote in the Assembly, it advanced through the fitness committee and the public protection committee.
Wiener, who has championed several drug policy reform spending on the legislation, adding one to legalize psychedelic property that has remained in legislative limbo since the Senate’s impeachment and two Assembly panels last year, said after Thursday’s vote that drinking sites “are a proven strategy. “to save lives and attract others for treatment.
Many thanks to the members of the @MattHaneySF @AsmCarrillo @SantiagoAD53 @laurafriedman43 Assembly for joining us as a team in this.
Great victory for public health.
– Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 30, 2022
“Every overdose death is preventable,” the senator said in a news release. “We have the team to end those deaths, make other people healthy and lessen the harm to other people who use drugs. Right now, we are letting other people die on our streets for no other reason than an arbitrary legal ban that we will have to remove. SB 57 is long overdue and will have a massive impact on some of the most vulnerable people in our community.
As Wiener has already pointed out, such types of damage relief systems are unprecedented, and other countries have already shown that they can save lives. Despite federal hurdles, New York has become the first U. S. city to sanction drinking sites and touted them for the first results.
At the federal level, the White House drug czar recently said Biden’s management was contemplating broader proposals for harm relief to drug policy, adding to allowing supervised admission sites, and went so far as to recommend an imaginable decriminalization.
While Biden’s management is still investigating the clinical effectiveness of those facilities, office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Rahul Gupta said the proposal to lift the existing federal ban was on the table. The Justice Department is in ongoing litigation in a case over the legality of client sites that has been presented as a challenge to Safehouse, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit.
The DOJ said in February that it “actively compared supervised takeover sites, adding discussions with national and local regulators about appropriate railings for those sites, as a component of a comprehensive approach to harm relief and public protection. “
In October, the Supreme Court rejected a request to hear a case over the legality of the creation of the safe house facilities, the case still remains in a lower federal court.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a pair of programs (RFAs) in December for an effort that will provide investment for efforts to examine how this and other harm relief policies can resolve the drug crisis.
Gupta has said in the past that it is imperative to explore “all options” to decrease overdose deaths, and that may come only with allowing sites to ingest illegal ingredients if evidence confirms their effectiveness.
The secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Xavier Becerra also noted that the Biden administration would not move to block the status quo of safe injection sites, noting that “we are literally looking to provide users with a lifeline. “
But a spokesperson for the branch later echoed the comments, saying that “HHS does not have a position on supervised admission sites” and that “the factor is an ongoing litigation factor. “operators under the Controlled Substances Act.
At the state level, a New York Assembly committee last month introduced a bill to establish a statewide admissions site program, allowing regulators to authorize services where other people can use illicit drugs recently in a medically supervised setting.
However, in a setback for advocates, Vermont’s governor recently vetoed a bill that had just created a task force tasked with crafting a plan to open drinking sites.
A ballot released in April found that a majority of Americans (64 percent) allowed safe places to drink.
Back in California, the Legislature on Wednesday approved a bill that provides significant tax relief for the state’s marijuana industry, which advocates and stakeholders say will reduce the illicit market while supporting licensed businesses and fair betting.
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Photo courtesy of Jernej Furman.
Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Marijuana Banking Amendment to Pass Defense Bill in Latest Reform Campaign
California Marijuana Tax Relief Bill Heads to Governor’s Office
Kyle Jaeger is the editor-in-chief of Sacramento-based Marijuana Moment. His paintings have also appeared in High Times, VICE, and atn.