Bryan Babb, DCNF
California lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow people to use illegal drugs in state-sanctioned sites.
SB-57, introduced by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener in December 2020, would allow for supervised spaces where people could use illegal drugs with sterile equipment and receive emergency care if necessary. The “supervised injection sites” would be designed to prevent overdoses and give a space for drug use indoors rather than on the sidewalk, Wiener said, according to NPR.
Senator @Scott_Wiener's legislation. authorizing safe consumption sites in SF, LA, & Oakland just passed out of Assembly Health Committee.
These sites will stop overdoses, reduce public drug use, get people into treatment, and save lives.
Let's get it signed into law.
— Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) January 12, 2022
If passed, SB-57 would allow the City and County of San Francisco, the City and County of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland to authorize the supervised spaces, the bill reads. The bill gives local authorities, including police and public health officials, a chance to offer public comment on a new site prior to its opening.
San Francisco declared a state of emergency in December 2021 to address fentanyl drug overdose deaths. The number of accidental drug overdose deaths in Los Angeles jumped from 777 in 2010 to 2,340 in 2020, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Overdoses are the leading cause of accidental deaths in California as well as the U.S. generally since 2011, according to the bill. A similar bill allowing for safe injection sites was vetoed by former California gov. Jerry Brown in 2018, according to NPR.
State Sen. Scott Wiener did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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I make more then $12,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 11 to 12 hours a week from home. I was amazed how easy it was after I tried it…GOOD LUCK.. https://www.workbz.com
$95 an hour! Seriously I don’t know why more people haven’t tried this, I work two shifts, 2 hours in the day and 2 in the evening…And whats awesome is Im working from home so I get more time with my kids. Heres where I went, ===))> https://www.fuljobz.com
GREAT !!!! It IS >>CalisGAYfornia, where the Majority of Sexually Confused DEMOCRAT feMALES and FEmales live…Let these idiots SHOOT UP. Stay in that CRAP HOLE !
It’s not the Californian who wants this schitt,they don’t ask the people because we’d vote them down,if we ever had a fair election,,,,,,FVCK NEWSCUM,,,,,FJB…
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Lawyers The State Misuse Laws Against Misuse of Drugs
Criminally, lawyerism had hobbled rightful enforcement of the law. It prosecuted that which, by their nature, clearly were not crimes against persons or property — acts such as intentional misuse of drugs.
The obverse [of the current wave of allowing criminals to avoid prosecution and punishment] had been a practice known as “civil forfeiture”. Innocent until proven guilty was a bedrock principle of U.S. justice. In most states, if a police officer merely suspected that property was connected to a crime, he could seize it without any actual evidence of wrongdoing. Through a federal program called “Equitable Sharing”, police could confiscate eighty percent of seized value. To recover that which was rightfully theirs, Americans must have proven that the property had no connection to a crime.
[Optional Note for Readers: The practice had begun with the British several hundred years ago in order to deal with pirates beyond the reach of maritime law, judging the goods guilty of the crime, if not the accused. During the War Between the States, the Union adopted the practice to confiscate Northern property owned by Southerners. In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court in J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Co. v. United States endorsed the practice. Early on, however, it dealt more with payment of customs-duties and rarely applied to ordinary citizens until 1984 when Congress created the “Assets Forfeiture Fund” within the Department of Justice supposedly to impede drug-trafficking. The program generalized from there, as do such programs fostering theft by government.] -from Retribution Fever
So goes tyranny. So go these United States.
I volunteer to administer the drugs. They won’t be coming back.
Proof positive that California has gone the way of the damned.
It has but not for that reason.