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Governor Jerry Brown Vetoes Supervised Consumption Services Bill, Rejecting Long-Proven Strategy to Reduce Overdose Deaths

Supervised consumption sites
Insite, North America’s first legal supervised injection site, in Vancouver. (Photo courtesy of Vancouver Coastal Health)

Governor Defies Scientific Consensus and Embraces Outdated Drug War Ideology to Justify Killing Life-Saving Bill

CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—October 1, 2018
Contacts: Tony Newman and Laura Thomas

Late last night California Governor Jerry Brown vetoedAssembly Bill 186 which would have allowed San Francisco to open overdose prevention services that would let drug users use controlled substances under the supervision of staff…

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