Colorado lawmakers are dropping their effort to allow safe-injection sites for opioid users this year — and a House Democratic leader says it’s partly because Denver got ahead of the state on the issue. Democratic Sen. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, who sponsored the bill along with Republican Kevin Priola, told reporters Tuesday morning she’s not going to bring it this year. House Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, in a separate meeting with media, blamed the fact that the Denver City Council and Mayor Michael Hancock approved a law in late 2018 that would allow the city to host a supervised drug-use facility.

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