It seems like some legislators in Sacramento do not realize or do not want to acknowledge the severity of the drug overdose crisis in cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. These were the jurisdictions included in gay state Senator Scott Wiener s (D-San Francisco) pilot safe consumption site legislation, Senate Bill 57, which earlier this month was punted to 2022. Wiener has been trying to get this bill passed for years, and even with a supermajority of Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento, he can t get it done. Meanwhile, overdose deaths in the city continue to flummox officials, demonstrating the urgency for this type of program. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in May that there were more than 700 drug overdose deaths in the city in 2020, eclipsing 257 deaths here from COVID-19. During the first four months of this year, there were 252 accidental overdose deaths. The Chronicle reported this week that there has been a slight dip in the number of overdose deaths sinc
In the days before Pride weekend, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman posted a stark warning on his Facebook page. Learning of three suspected overdose deaths in the Castro today, Mandelman wrote. Like most SF overdoses, these folks were indoors. The Fire Department is increasingly seeing meth and cocaine tainted with fentanyl. Reminding everyone this Pride week to be extra careful and take care of one another.
Speaking with the Bay Area Reporter recently, Mandelman said that I was careful with that post because the San Francisco Fire Department could only speak in general terms. They were not willing to confide particulars with me, but they said all three died of overdoses on the same day: two together, and one separately, Mandelman said. The chief [Jeanine Nicholson] told me increasingly they are finding people who think they re using something that s not fentanyl. . That seems to be something that s happening.
California Appeals Court: Mandatory Transgender Pronouns Violate First Amendment
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20 Jul 2021
The California Third District Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that a 2017 state law requiring nursing homes to use patients’ preferred pronouns violates First Amendment free speech rights.
The law, SB 219, was authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). As Breitbart News reported at the time, it provided for jail sentences of up to one year for using the “wrong” pronoun:
A new bill being considered by the California State Senate would punish people who “willfully and repeatedly” refuse “to use a transgender resident’s preferred name or pronouns” in a public health, retirement or housing institution.
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