Important Takeaways:

• Bill that would create legal drug injection sites in California advances in state Legislature
• California moved a step closer Wednesday to creating sites where people could legally use drugs under supervision designed to save them from dying if they overdose, over the objections of opponents who said the state would be enabling dangerous and illegal activity.
• The full Assembly will now consider allowing test programs in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, more than a year after the proposal narrowly passed the state Senate.
• Safe injection sites may not be a perfect solution, Jones-Sawyer said, but “we need to go ahead and try something new.”
• California would be “creating an enabling program that enables people to continue to do what is very damaging and destructive, not only to themselves but to the public at large,” said Republican Assemblyman Kelly Seyarto. The goal, he said, should be to “get them off of drugs and get them out of this dependency” instead of allowing it.

Read the original article by clicking here.