Fentanyl test strips could soon be legal to possess, after Kansas lawmakers reached a compromise to allow the product. Test strips are currently defined as drug paraphernalia; but a Bill headed to the Governor’s desk would make it legal to possess them. Lawmakers hope that people will test drugs before using them and avoid taking fatal doses.
Republican State Representative, Ken Collins, supported the Bill, saying fentanyl and drug overdoses deaths are a very real thing right now in Kansas. He knows of two people near him, in just a matter of a few months, died of overdoses. Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in Kansas. The State had one of the sharpest increases in overdose deaths in 2021. Democratic Governor Laura Kelly is expected to sign the Bill into law.
