The bill’s passage comes months after the Justice Department sued to block a Philadelphia nonprofit organization from opening what is known as a supervised injection facility. “A safe injection site will obviously help not only reduce the needles that are on our sidewalks. City officials in Ithaca, N.Y., Denver, Seattle and New York City have expressed interest in opening safe injection facilities, as has a legislative committee in Massachusetts. Supervised injection facilities operate in Australia, Canada and Europe. Officials from U.S. cities have visited a large supervised consumption facility in Vancouver, Canada, and a smaller one in Toronto.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2019 12:17 UTC