San Fran mayor demands taxpayers provide "safe injection sites" for druggies

[Text Drivers are Killers]

This money should be spent on building apartments so WORKING taxpayers don't have to pay $4,000 a month for a 1BR.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...-sfgate-result

july 15 2018 San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants the city to open safe drug injection sites. She also wants city residents to feel the facilities don’t have to be a danger or a nuisance.

So on Sunday, she’s expected to talk about her plan to open a demonstration injection site meant to provide the public with a realistic sense of what such a facility would look like.

Breed plans to make the announcement during Sunday services at Glide Memorial Methodist Church in the Tenderloin, where the mock safe injection site will be housed and open to the public next month, from Aug. 28 to 31.

The model site is still being designed, said Glide spokesman Robert Avila, but it’s expected to draw on common features of existing facilities in other countries, including booths where drug users can inject drugs, to shoot up, as well as so-called “chill rooms,” where users can ride out their highs under clinical supervision.

[hvilleherb]

This money should be spent on building apartments so WORKING taxpayers don't have to pay $4,000 a month for a 1BR.

Democrats are waving the white flag of surrender in the war on drugs.

[Flash]

Democrats are waving the white flag of surrender in the war on drugs.

They should build it next door to the mayor's home.

[cawacko]

I have a couple of friends that have paid millions for their condos but are afraid to let their little kids walk on the streets in front of their buildings because of the drug needles and trash. Would this help? I don't know

[CFM]

I have a couple of friends that have paid millions for their condos but are afraid to let their little kids walk on the streets on front of their buildings because of the drug needles and trash. Would this help? I don't know

Did they move because of it? If not, apparently it didn't scare them or bother them too much.

[CFM]

Just another example of a left wing Democrat supporting the concept of someone making a choice then someone else paying the price.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

I have a couple of friends that have paid millions for their condos but are afraid to let their little kids walk on the streets in front of their buildings because of the drug needles and trash. Would this help? I don't know

Nothing should be done to encourage drug abuse. And if something is done to help these losers it should be done with private money.

[Irish Exit]

When they get Hep or HIV and their organs get affected, they qualify for disability and will support their habit off taxpayer money anyway, so I guess helping string them along helps the public sort of.

[PostmodernProphet]

they could put them on the cable cars so the tourists wouldn't miss them.......

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I have a couple of friends that have paid millions for their condos but are afraid to let their little kids walk on the streets in front of their buildings because of the drug needles and trash. Would this help? I don't know

We have had a clean needle exchange programme for many years. At the very least, it helps to prevent diseases like Hepatitis C and should be encouraged.

https://www.addaction.org.uk/help-an...afer-injecting

[CFM]

They should build it next door to the mayor's home.

The mayor should allow them to come and shoot up IN her home.

[CFM]

When they get Hep or HIV and their organs get affected, they qualify for disability and will support their habit off taxpayer money anyway, so I guess helping string them along helps the public sort of.

Isn't the choice to use drugs one they made? Why should the taxpayers pay a dime for anything related to it?

[CFM]

We have had a clean needle exchange programme for many years. At the very least, it helps to prevent diseases like Hepatitis C and should be encouraged.

https://www.addaction.org.uk/help-an...afer-injecting

How about encourage them to not use drugs and if they still choose to do so, let them deal with their own problems.

People that support things like this are the ones that would feed cats and wonder why the cats keep hanging around.

[TrippyHippy]

I support clean needle programs as a matter of public health, but entire safe injection sites are going to be a bit costly. And the opposition has a fair point that taxpayers shouldn't be footing such a heavy bill to support other peoples' poor choices.

Alternative solution: I think we should look into decriminalization as a means to make drug use safer, prohibition is the single biggest risk factor in drugs. Bringing drugs out of the black market and into the hands of a well regulated state-run dispensary would result in safer, less potent drugs. These dispensaries could set limits on how much can be bought at one time and would also prevent lacing with other drugs like carfentanil. Thus reducing the need for a safe injection site at all because there will be less overdoses. The money these dispensaries generate could help the community, going to build schools, pave roads, clean up our cities, help the homeless. This is a harm reduction tactic that would actually put more money back in taxpayers' pockets rather than out of it, as well as fighting gang violence and cartels by taking away their biggest profit ventures.

[TrippyHippy]

Democrats are waving the white flag of surrender in the war on drugs.

Um...the war on drugs has been lost for a long time. When your war ends up increasing drug abuse, it's time to change the strategy. Decades of hard-line "tough on drugs" posturing have simply not worked, they have made the problem far worse.