The City of Seattle has become a haven for free drug possession and use. Addicts on the streets, increased homelessness and crime have inspired social media groups and television producers alike to highlight the decline of a great city. Businesses have moved to never return.
But it seems as if now The City of Seattle is moving closer to having a public drug use and possession law actually on the books. For those of us living in the Seattle metro, we wonder if it is too little, too late? Take a look:
Council Bill 120586, failed by a vote of 5 – 4 in June in Full Council. The bill would have made the knowing possession and public use of illegal drugs a gross misdemeanor, effectively codifying the Revised Code of Washington, or RCW 39.34.180. Why did it fail? The feckless Seattle City Council voted the bill down.
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