St. Paul, MN – May 18, 2023 – Today, Governor Tim Walz signed Senate File 2909, the House Omnibus Judiciary and Public Safety Finance bill. In addition to expanding access to harm reduction services, including drug checking services, this bill will make giving away and possessing all drug paraphernalia, as well as any contained residue, […]
May 18, 2023 – Washington, D.C. – Today, the RESTORE Act–legislation that would immediately repeal the lifetime federal ban on individuals with felony drug convictions from receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)–was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and in the House by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) […]
Washington, D.C. – March 22, 2023 – Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT) Act (H.R. 467) out of committee (26 yea, 19 nay). This legislation would ramp up mandatory minimum sentencing for fentanyl-related substances. It would also permanently schedule all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I […]
March 18, 2022 – New York, NY – In response to a just-released video of Edward Bronstein being forcibly held down and killed following a traffic stop—after police said they had suspicion of Bronstein being under the influence of a narcotic—Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director of theDrug Policy Alliance (DPA), released the following statement: “Caught on […]
WASHINGTON — After Congress passed the omnibus spending bill today that included a provision extending the Trump-era temporary classwide scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, civil rights groups are denouncing the provision and calling on Congress to stop the extension and instead pursue policies that adequately address the overdose crisis as the public health issue that it […]
