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September 28th, 2007I received an intriguing letter from a San Francisco reader who is being dragged to the once mythical intersection of Squalor and Bedlam.
Daniel (I have altered his name to protect him from junkies, politicians, and other undesirables) contacted me after having read my rhetoric concerning San Francisco’s encouragement of doping outside of city hall. Since doping within San Francisco city hall is evidently a recreational affair, my original article dealt with their export policy and encouragement of self-destructive behaviour. Not content with merely supporting the horse habits of the homeless, certain organization are out to encourage the next generation. Daniel reports:
The Homeless Youth Alliance (HYA), which coordinates the needle exchange …
Now isn’t that interesting. Normal people would avoid associating the word “youth” with drug advocacy, but in the Modern Sodom more than just the common language is corruptible.
… and the Department of Public Heath is attempting a move to the Hamilton United Methodist Church, 1/2 block from the Montessori Pre-School …
Allow me to paint the picture in colorful San Franciscan hues. Preschoolers, kids younger than five, who come to this facility every day, will witness a steady stream of under-washed vagrants, semi-pro prostitutes, and world-class dregs queued near their school in order to get implements for shooting dope.
I wonder what parents think of that:
A public hearing was held last night, and as expected virtually 100% of neighbors opposed the move.
Nice to know that sanity prevails in some regions of The City, though this may not be enough to salvage the innocence of the innocents. Daniel claims that the local Homeless Youth Alliance (HYA):
… provides tips on smoking crack, safer prostitution, and more
As contributory evidence, he forwarded a page from a manual being distributed by the San Francisco Needle Exchange (click on the graphic for a PDF) that instructs junkies to:
* Find a clean, safe and well lit place where you will have enough time (shame the book store on Van Ness is no longer available)
* Make sure the tourniquet isn’t too tight (wouldn’t want your arm to turn blue before inserting the poison)
* Inject slowly
* Enjoy your high
This is a new, strange and disturbing angle in the already insane debate concerning public financing of heroin use. The premise of the needle exchange program was that it attempted to reduce disease and would not actually encourage drug use. That claim appears right after “we won’t raise your taxes” and “the police will protect you.”
A central issue is the unsavory connection between the production of doping manuals and the $275,000 the HYA receives from the city Department of Public Health. Indirectly, tax dollars are subsidising would-be dopers, and actively encouraging drug abuse.
Your tax dollars at work.
Now we have an interesting intersection: The government gives money to the morally suspect HYA, who then instructs kids on how to create or worsen their addiction, and then advocates having the newly minted hop heads to come close to your impressionable preschoolers.
And the good people of San Francisco wonder why the rest of America views them as debauched and dangerous.
I feel that referring to some people as ‘world-class dregs’ is rather distasteful..
Perhaps some open-minded information about entheogens would be helpful - instead of brainwashing about the ‘evils’ of drugs -
‘I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex.’ Terrence Mckenna
‘I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex.’