Seth Klamann is a statehouse reporter at the Denver Post, covering policy, state government and the legislature. He previously worked for the Gazette, the Casper Star-Tribune and the Omaha World-Herald. He's a graduate of the University of Missouri and a proud Kansas City native.
Richard Woodruff, left, and Cam Thomas ask for support for overdose prevention during International Overdose Awareness Day in front of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver on Thursday, August 31, 2023. as a legislative committee signed off Monday on a slew of other drug policy reforms for consideration in next year’s session.
Mullica, who voted against a similar policy in April over regulatory concerns, joined with fellow Democratic Rep. Mary Young and the committee’s four Republicans in sinking the measure. Each bill broadly addresses a particular area of drug policy: treatment, harm reduction, prevention or recovery. If approved during the legislative session, which begins in January, the bills would improve access to key opioid treatment medications, expand a proven but underutilized methamphetamine treatment, bolster health funding for prisons and jails, and broaden legal immunity protections and flexibility for organizations that work with drug users.in schools and in pediatricians’ offices.
As for the rejected supervised-use measure, it’s unclear how influential Polis’ veto threat was in the outcome. Young voted in favor of a similar proposal earlier this year and said she supported the science underpinning supervised-use sites. But concerns from constituents swayed her to vote no, she said — not the governor.
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