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Colorado lawmakers defeat supervised-drug use sites bill for third time in a year

Measure would have allowed facilities to open in Denver, other willing cities

Colorado State House Representative Elisabeth Epps, second from bottom on the right side of the staircase, and a dozen other people lay down for 288 seconds, one second for every person who has died of an overdose in Denver so far in 2023, as part of this year’s International Overdose Awareness Day at the Colorado Capitol building in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Colorado State House Representative Elisabeth Epps, second from bottom on the right side of the staircase, and a dozen other people lay down for 288 seconds, one second for every person who has died of an overdose in Denver so far in 2023, as part of this year’s International Overdose Awareness Day at the Colorado Capitol building in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Denver Post reporter Seth Klamann in Commerce City, Colorado on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
By | sklamann@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
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