SEATTLE received a setback in its effort to create a supervised heroin consumption site after a federal appeals court denied a similar effort in Philadelphia to create locations for heroin users to inject the drug with a nurse present.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that a heroin consumption site in Pennsylvania could not open because it would violate federal drug laws, KOMO-TV reported.
Judge Stephanos Bibas called the motives by Safehouse, the organization trying to open the site, “admirable” but said “Congress has made it a crime to open a property to others to use drugs.”
Seattle was waiting to see how the appeals court would rule before deciding whether to move forward.
Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.
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