With both the Renton City Council and Washington State Legislature poised to discuss new drug laws next week, action on this important topic could become confusing for residents.
The Legislature is convening in a special session which is essentially a do-over after they failed to act in April, effectively decriminalizing possession of all hard drugs in our state as of July 1st– including fentanyl, meth, cocaine, stolen prescription drugs and other highly addictive substances. Meanwhile, Renton City Council is working on a city ordinance to make possession of these drugs illegal, and public use of drugs even more illegal, because of the Legislature’s failure to enact legislation the last time.
The Legislature is expected to pick up where they left off with Senate Bill 5536, which still had a number of areas of disagreement in it.
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