Following the closure of the Washington State Legislative Session, King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn introduced on April 26 an ordinance that would make public drug use a misdemeanor in King County.
Dunn’s proposal was made after what he called in a statement regarding the proposal, the Washington State Legislature’s “failure to provide a permanent state level drug possession law in the wake of the Supreme Court’s State v. Blake’s decision.”
The Washington Supreme Court’s State v. Blake decision was made in 2021. It ruled the state’s statute outlawing simple possession of illegal drugs was unconstitutional because the statute did not explicitly state that an offender would need to have
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