Attention, moralizing pearl-clutchers:
Do you think allowing a safe consumption site for drug users will only “enable” people who use illegal drugs? Do you, like KIRO radio host Jason Rantz, think safe consumption sites represent “coddling behavior”? Do you agree with Magnolia resident Cindy Pierce, who thinks anyone using a safe consumption site should be required to get treatment? Do you fear, as seemingly every online commenter does, that this will only increase drug use and crime?
You’re kidding yourselves.
If the idea of providing hard-drug users a place to shoot up sounds radical, consider this: We’re already doing it. “We have consumption spaces now,” Kris Nyrop, who works with a law enforcement diversion program for drug users, said last month. “It’s called the library. It’s called the bathroom at McD’s. It’s called the bathroom at Cal Anderson Park. The issue is where do we want those consumption spaces to be?”…