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The Seattle City Council reversed course Tuesday night and passed a new ordinance outlawing public drug use or possession. Critics call it a new War on Drugs.
The Seattle City Council has adopted an ordinance that makes illegal drug use and possession a gross misdemeanor, after rejecting a similar measure earlier this summer. The council voted 6-3
Activists expressed their outrage Tuesday night after the Seattle City Council voted to make drug possession and use a gross misdemeanor in the city with spiraling drug and homeless rates.
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday adopted a controlled substance law after rejecting it earlier this summer, making the possession and public use of drugs such as fentanyl a gross misdemeanour.