The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

A deadly ruling on clean needles

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | August 1, 1993 | Copyright

The Supreme Judicial Court's conviction of two men for giving clean hypodermic needles to intravenous drug users in the interest of slowing the spread of AIDS was misguided and mischievous.

If Gov. Weld feels any compulsion to redress injustice, he will sign the sidebar to the 1994 budget now on his desk that would allow the Department of Public Health to begin a pilot needle exchange program. Better yet, he will follow the recommendations of President Bush's National Commission on AIDS and push to immediately "remove legal barriers to the purchase and possession of…

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