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I've lived is SF... People shoot up everywere, leave used needles in playgrounds and in parks and share needles.... hep-c and hiv are rampart. If there was a place where junkies could do it safer and spread less desiese... I'm all for it.
If there were no bars in the city, beer cans and bottles would be strewn througout the streets and playgrounds, broken beer bottles would cut childrens feet in playgrounds and people wakling through the woods. More drunks would be walking around the street fighting puking and trying to rape.
Besides "your" taxes wouldn't be funding it, unless you live in SF in which case, most san fransiscans sopport it overwelmingly
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so long as their is also a treatment program provided to the addicted people to help them get off the heroin.
Drug addiction is a medical problem.
The problem with that drug is that you can't just quit - withdrawl can and does kill people. It has to be managed by gentle withdrawal using methadone as a substitute. Then you have to get the patinet off the methadone.
But heroin is otherwise a fairly benign drug as far as toxicity goes. I worked in a research group that complied data on drug abuse of various kinds in Canada. If a user has a constant supply it's less harmful than alcohol beleive it or not.
For the record the only thing as addicting as heroin (and oxycontin) is nicotine. That's why quitting smoking is so damned hard. There are receptors in your brain that the stuff gloms onto. It is far from easy to quit either.
But quitting smoking won't kill you. Quitting narcotiocs like herion and Oxy WILL. They need this unless oly want dead bodies on the streets one way or another - either from withdrawl or from the crime needing the drug not to die engenders. :-( Sad but true. -
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Better than having drug addicts inject themselves on playgrounds and have kids finding the needles.
The amounts of times I nearly poked myself with the damn things when I was younger is unbelievable.
It also makes sure that the addicts don't re-use needles and infect themselves with all kinds of crap and end up infecting loads more people. -
I don't even know if I want to respond to this question. I lived in SF for a while, albeit a FEW years back. It was a beautiful city, clean, cultured, fun, and fairly safe as cities go. But since the change of elected city officials I am sickened to see what SF has become. I am not surprised any more just very very sad.
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And I think it should be a trap to drag people into jail for having drugs.