Thursday, September 23, 2004
The D-word
This Daily Cal story about the Governor vetoing and signing some bills concerning needle exchange issues discusses the various difficulties that the needle exchange question presents. But the entire story doesn't mention drug use at all. Not once.
Berkeley has supported clean-needle exchange programs like NEED for the past 15 years. State law requires the city to declare an HIV-infection state of emergency every two to three weeks to allow the distribution of needles.
Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington said continually declaring a state of emergency is a “waste of paper and time.”
Hmm... you know, maybe, just maybe, the law is there for a reason, and we shouldn't be arbitrarily declaring states of emergency just to get around it. Don't like the law? Fight it. Don't loophole around it. Are we in an HIV-infection state of emergency?
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