The United Nations Human Rights Council has been urged to investigate Duterte’s war on drugs and reconsider the Philippines’ membership in the council should the killings continue.
The bill will permit the preparation or possession of controlled substances in supervised premises and exempt certain users from possession charges under certain conditions.
The measure makes Vermont the ninth American state to legalise recreational cannabis use among adults and the first to legalise through a legislative process.
New legislation streamlines the more than two dozen requirements previously needed to launch facilities, which offer supervision and sterile equipment.
The Montreal sites are modelled after Vancouver-based Insite, which was the first city in North America to have a legal, supervised injection site beginning in 2003.