San Francisco’s new Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie , announced Wednesday that he is rolling back the city’s policy of freely distributing drug paraphernalia.
City leaders have pursued a harm reduction approach for decades, culminating in a recent program to provide clean foil, pipes, and plastic straws for drug users to smoke fentanyl or methamphetamines free of charge. Lurie told the New York Times he would be scaling back the program, which costs city taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
“We’ve lost our way,” he said while touring the drug hot spot Tenderloin neighborhood. “We are no longer going to sit by and allow people to kill themselves on the streets.”…