Jimmy Higgins
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YES! Of course, chemical addiction has been around for centuries... so "encouraging" them to stop using drugs might be umm... what's the word.... hard to impossible? So when we recognize that chemical dependency exists and it can't easily be remediated, we look at remediating the costs to society of their chemical dependencies.Isn’t it better to help people get of these drugs than to encourage their drug dependency?A similar program already exists in San Francisco Tenderloin area that is a failure but by golly, the progressives will press ahead anyway;
Los Angeles could soon become one of three cities in California to provide supervised injection sites under legislation passed by the state Senate Monday and heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. Newsom said in 2018 he was "very, very open" to the idea of a pilot program to allow legal drug injection sites, splitting with his predecessor Jerry Brown, who vetoed a similar bill that same year. The bill, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, passed the state Senate by a 21-11 vote Monday. It would allow the city and county of Los Angeles -- along with San Francisco and Oakland -- to provide spaces where people can consume pre-obtained drugs with provided clean needles. Trained professionals would be on site with supplies such as Narcan to assist in the event of an overdose.
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