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California
Counties
Using
New
Law
to
Decriminalize
Needle
Exchange
12/17/99
The counties of Alameda,
Berkeley, Contra Costa and Oakland have passed emergency orders supporting
needle exchange programs, according to yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle
(12/16), fulfilling the requirements of a law passed this year by the California
legislature. The emergency order requirement was a compromise with
Gov. Gray Davis, who had threatened to veto the original version (see http://www.drcnet.org/wol/106.html#ab518).
Needle exchange has drawn
support from across California's political spectrum. "I think it's
a legitimate means to address the problem," Scott Gordon of the Contra
Costa County Republican Central Committee told the Chronicle on Tuesday.
"I support it. I know a number of other Republicans do."
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Issue #119, 12/17/99
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