The bill was signed by the Minnesota governor on Friday.
“This is the first in the nation provision, and when I say first in the nation provision, it is the only law that legalizes all forms of drug paraphernalia,” said Edward Krumpotich, the Upper Midwest Policy Lead with the National Harm Reduction Coalition. “It also legalizes all drugs contained in that paraphernalia defined as residual drugs.”The public safety bill, signed by Gov.
After his experience with dirty syringes, Krumpotich, who is now sober, turned to public policy, joining a harm reduction coalition to support this new legislation to send a new message of recovery and prevention.He says that sharing syringes during drug injection use is a primary factor. “Really, it started showing up again in 2019. It’s not a huge number, but in the past year it has gone up about 20%,” said Jenny Swanson, who sits on the board of directors with Harm Reduction Sisters.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention“If you visit a syringe program, you are five times more likely to enter drug treatment,” Krumpotich said. “That information is incontrovertible.
Krumpotich said old policies kept people in the shadows, enabling drug use by not allowing providers access to them. “As someone who used for a long time, my disease may not have happened if I had access to a syringe service provider,” Krumpotich said.The new law goes into effect on Aug. 1.
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