Joe Biden on Overdose Prevention Sites
Biden wrote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which included the 1986 Emergency Crack Control Act, commonly referred to as “the crack house statute”. This bill was intended to give police and prosecutors a way to criminalize landlords who allowed open drug use and sales, and makes it a federal crime to “knowingly open, lease, rent, use or maintain any place, whether permanently or temporarily, for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing or using any controlled substance.” President Trump’s attorney general William McSwain is now using this statute to attempt to block efforts in Philadelphia, PA to open the first U.S. supervised injection site.
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Trump Administration Is In Court To Block Nation’s 1st Supervised Injection Site
NPR, September 6, 2019 | Nina Feldman