Scott Wiener tries — again — to allow S.F., Oakland and L.A. to open a safe drug use site
Mayor London Breed and members of the Board of Supervisors support opening safe drug use sites in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle (US)
Monday, December 7, 2020
Monday, December 7, 2020
State Sen. Scott Wiener is trying — once again — to allow San Francisco to open a safe injection site, where people can use drugs in a safe and supervised setting. It’s currently illegal to open a such a site in California. The bill, which Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced, would allow San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland to open a safe injection site. The pilot program would sunset Jan. 1, 2027. Mayor London Breed and members of the Board of Supervisors support opening safe drug use sites in San Francisco, where overdoses have skyrocketed this year. The city is on track to lose two people a day to the crisis, which shows no signs of slowing as the pandemic disrupts city services and isolates people from their communities.
