Photo courtesy; Associated Press.Where else could this come from but the hotbed of social liberal sickness that is the city of San Francisco.
Yesterday the health officials of this bastion of iniquity, announced that it is taking the first steps in the attempt to open a 'safe' drug injection room for users of illegal narcotics.
This brilliant idea is being sold as a viable answer to some of the problems created by drug abuse, according to the city's Department of Public Health.
The problems they hope to address? The high rate of deaths caused by drug overdose, the ever increasing financial burden on the city and state caused by the emergency response to care for these folks, and to help clean up the unsightly clutter of used needles in Golden Gate park.
As I listened to this on MSNBC, and read the article on Lycos News I was sadly shocked to realize that nowhere was there to be offered counseling and help to those addicted in this plan. After all, why ruin a good high with the glaring reality that our public officials have given up on those in need.
What this will accomplish is the removal of the problem from our immediate perception, and so less attention will be paid to addicts and their plight. We will be able to more easily go about our lives in our comfortable consciences, while the hopelessly addicted can trudge their way to a slower death out of the public eye. The benefits are tragically wonderful. As these 'safe' drug rooms will be a haven from the law, (it is planned that anyone using the service will be exempt from arrest and prosecution for possession of a controlled substance, as to encourage users to come there rather than shoot up elsewhere) police will be freed up from dealing with many drug related operations and paperwork. Dealers of heroin and cocaine will gain a legitimate place in society and see increased profits. The citizens of San Francisco can better sell their city and all it's vices to the rest of the nation, perhaps in it's public relations advertisements, a fun visit to the 'safe' drug room for a blast of H or coke can be marketed as a place to wind down, or rev up after a day at the Folsom Street Fair.
Perhaps best of all, money will be saved. Numbers of emergency calls to rescue overdosing addicts will sharply drop, along with their expense, thus giving a happily validating news bite to the left leaning media, who if this succeeds, may begin to pose the question, why do we fight a war against drugs? Then again, why fight against anything at all when it's easier to just give up.
