british troops in boston. this is just over an hour. all right, so today, we re going to be talking about the imperial problem that faces britain after the end of the war in 1763 and, of course, the coming of the revolution. so if you have any questions, pipe up, if not, i ll be asking you a few. now, you remember last time or last week, anyway, we put a graph up here showing the result you probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies in 25 year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain? and if you remember, the graph shot up kind of like. like this. ov over the words. in other words, as colonies move along from jamestown in 1776, more people as time passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. they don t need to be ruled from westminster and of course, enough of them decide that to produce a declaration of independence. so that graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand, right? it s just like you growing up.
last week, anyway, we put a graph up here showing the result you probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies in 25 year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain? and if you remember, the graph shot up kind of like. like this. over the words. in other words, as colonies move along from jamestown in 1776, more people as time passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. they don t need to be ruled from westminster and of course, enough of them decide that to produce a declaration of independence. so that graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand, right? it s just like you growing up. when you re 2, the last thing you want is your parents to dump you out the door and say, now you ve got to run your own life. by the time you re 12, you can see it might look pretty good. by the time you re 18, here you are. so if this graph is right, then the colonies are just going through the normal process of maturing. and a sm
have not survived, and the families of those who have not survived, and the struggles of families who are living with those with active addiction. i wholeheartedly support this effort largely because my longing is to see the creativity and energy of current drug users be released a little bit. one of the things we talk about a lot is drug users as if they only use drugs. that s the only thing that they do. i want to say i know many drug users who are also artists, who are caretakers, who are companions, who are family members. and they re creativity is often used up in trying to find places to use. trying to overcome criminalization, trying to find a place to live. this is one small step in making sure that all of our brothers and sisters on the streets have a chance to use their creativity for the benefit of all of us. if we re talking about saving $3.5 million in our city budget, think of what we receive in terms of released energy and creativity and entrepreneurship if we
active addiction. i wholeheartedly support this effort largely because my longing is to see the creativity and energy of current drug users be released a little bit. one of the things we talk about a lot is drug users as if they only use drugs. that s the only thing that they do. i want to say i know many drug users who are also artists, who are caretakers, who are companions, who are family members. and they re creativity is often used up in trying to find places to use. trying to overcome criminalization, trying to find a place to live. this is one small step in making sure that all of our brothers and sisters on the streets have a chance to use their creativity for the benefit of all of us. if we re talking about saving $3.5 million in our city budget, think of what we receive in terms of released energy and creativity and entrepreneurship if we have a more dignified way for our brothers and sisters who use to be able to bring their energies and strength to our community.
treatment, and we need to do prevention at schools and provide education for training at city college and schools, early training to let people become productive and let them know the bad things about drugs. and eliminate the drug providers. thank you. chairman: thank you. next speaker. hello, i m am laura sinani. we have an opioid and fentanyl epidemic here in san francisco. people are dying on the streets of overdoses. our streets are covered with needles. addiction is a health issue, and drug users must be treated with dignity. i implore you to have overdose prevention services, to prevent overdoses, to provide a safe environment where drug users can use, and also get treatment for their health issues. whether harm reduction model or recovery model. and also overdose prevention services can prevent syringe litter and a safer environment for us all. people s lives are at stake. i urge for these services. thank you. chairman: thank you. next speaker. hello, superviso