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Colorado legislators back ban on poison used in suicides: “This bill will save lives”

Legislative committee advances bill banning sale of high-potency sodium nitrite to Coloradans

Rep. Judy Amabile speaks during a committee hearing in 2023
Democratic sponsors of HB23-1219, Boulder democrat Judy Amabile, left, and Englewood Democrat Meg Froelich, right, speak before members of the House State Civil Military and Veterans Affairs Committee at the Colorado State Capitol on March 6, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Denver Post reporter Seth Klamann in Commerce City, Colorado on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
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The bill would ban the sale of high-potency sodium nitrite — more than 10% pure — to Coloradans, except approved commercial businesses, in a bid to slow deaths in a state that regularly has one of the highest suicide rates in the country.
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