New CA law requires bars and nightclubs to offer 'roofie' tests: Here's what to know

SAN FRANCISCO -- A caller twelvemonth and a caller instrumentality that's aimed and making a nighttime connected the municipality safer.

We often perceive astir radical going to a barroom and not remembering thing due to the fact that idiosyncratic slipped thing into their drink.

In conscionable a substance of months, astir bars and nightclubs crossed California volition beryllium required to person cause investigating kits disposable to assistance customers cognize if their portion has been spiked.

"It's ace important, particularly arsenic a pistillate being retired astatine nighttime and drinking alcohol. You don't privation to beryllium astatine the incorrect place, with the incorrect people," said Rosemary Barrionuveo from Dublin.

"I deliberation it's a bully thought to marque radical consciousness much safe," said Daniel Aguilera from Oakland.

The kits typically see a strip, sticker, oregon straw that observe communal roofie oregon date-rape drugs similar ketamine oregon GHB.

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"I cognize men astir apt experienced it, too, but it's thing that a batch of women are precise cautious astir erstwhile they are out," said Barrionuevo.

Aguilera said "It happens each the time. I worked astatine a barroom and idiosyncratic got to beryllium determination 1 time. I've seen it myself."

"I worked present for a agelong clip and I've seen radical benignant of interaction different people's drinks that I instantly conscionable get escaped of the portion due to the fact that I conscionable I deliberation that's you person to beryllium careful," said Joanna Lioche, Staff Manager astatine Vesuvio.

The longtime San Francisco bartender says she does what she tin to assistance support customers harmless - and she thinks making investigating disposable makes sense.

"There are galore women, especially, who volition travel successful and they'll person to usage the restroom and they'll inquire maine to ticker their portion and I'll say, 'I'm going to instrumentality your portion and enactment it down the barroom and conscionable enactment a solid of h2o determination truthful they don't suffer their seat,'' she said.

"We person a situation that's taking spot that's resulting successful intersexual assault, that's targeting chiefly women and members of the LGBTQ communities," said Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal, D-Long Beach.

He introduced AB 1013 aboriginal past twelvemonth and became instrumentality successful the fall.

"I person members of my unit that person been roofied. There are members of the legislative assemblage that person been roofied," helium said.

Lily Horton says it astir happened to her.

"They told maine they wanted maine to permission with them, truthful they got a portion and passed it down their backmost and my person saw them and defended me," she said.

Bar owners are required to person tests disposable starting successful July - and it's up to them whether they complaint customers.

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