San Francisco Looking into Safe Injection Rooms for Addicts

 Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell

 This is where the liberal mantra of “they are going to do it anyways” takes us to next. As if it weren’t bad enough that 11 year olds were “going to have sex anyways” so we must provide them with birth control instead of educating them that what they are engaging in may have consequences, we now learn that San Francisco (figures) is looking into the possibility of opening up safe injection rooms. Yes, we are talking about what it sounds like, just read this:

City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.

  Addicts who are breaking the law would be able to have nurse supervision under this proposal. INSANE. This is what America has come down to, instead of punishing the criminals, we are making it easier for them to break the law. We are encouraging them to break the law. What has happened to my country?

Having the conversation today will help us figure out whether this is a way to reduce the harms and improve the health of our community,” said Grant Colfax, director of HIV prevention for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

 Okay, everybody knows the risks that come with intravenous drug use, HIV being one of them. But you know what will happen if the law is enforced instead of enabling the drug users? The users would go to jail. Instead of providing them a room to shoot up in we should be providing them with a jail cell where they will be unable to do the drugs. They will be unable to commit crimes for drug money. They will no longer be a burden on society, and it will improve the health of the community.

 How is the injection room justified when it seems as though it would be helping criminals to break the law? I’m glad you asked:

Temple University law professor Scott Burris told the audience at Thursday’s forum that a supervised injection room would seem to run afoul of federal drug possession laws and a state statute that makes it illegal to operate a crack house or any place where drugs are used, but only if the police and federal agents enforce them.

“The law isn’t a barrier,” Burris said. “The issue of whether it’s legal doesn’t come up until somebody is arrested.”

 In his mind the law isn’t an issue because it isn’t enforced anyways, and I suppose he is correct. What good is having a law if it isn’t enforced?

 This is where I am going to turn into the stereo-typical angry right wing Republican. If you watch Discovery channel, or Animal Planet, or any other nature show one thing is evident. Nature has a way of weeding out the weak. Predators kill the weak and sickly prey while the strongest survive. Drug addicts are the weak members of society. If they want to shoot heroin, then whatever consequences that become them, they deserve, including death by overdose. Society will be stronger without them. But don’t tell me we need taxpayer funded rooms to help them shoot up. Next you will tell me that we need to provide free heroin so that the addicts won’t have to commit robbery for drug money, where does it stop? We shouldn’t be making it easier on these people, we should be cracking down on them, making them pay for their crimes. While they will not be able to do drugs while in jail, they will at least be receiving free room and board.

Just not a safe injection room.