One of the top priorities for lawmakers in the upcoming 2023 session will be coming up with a permanent solution to Washington’s drug possession law.
RCW 69.50.4013
When the state supreme court’s Blake decision came down mid-session in February 2021 it immediately ended our state’s drug possession law essentially making it legal for anyone to have small amounts of any drug on them. Local jurisdictions would be able to pass their own ordinances – and some did – but that created concerns about a system of patchwork laws across the state.
The rushed temporary fix lawmakers came up with is what we have now – making drug possession a misdemeanor but not until you’re caught for the third time. State Rep. Lauren Davis is part of a group of lawmakers, behavioral health experts, and others who have been working on what that fix could look like, and says there are a couple of possibilities.
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