California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill on Monday to authorize safe consumption sites for illicit drugs as part of a pilot program. The move came several weeks after the California Senate approved the measure, which was authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) and sponsored by Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), and other co-sponsoring organizations.
Under the bill, pilot programs with supervised drug consumption sites would have been allowed in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.
