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Slow-Motion Suicide in San Francisco
Homeless men sleep on Larkin Street in June 2019. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. ‘It’s handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.’
By Michael Shellenberger
02.07.22 — Culture and Ideas
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At this point all I can say is: go and see it. 

Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.

But you don’t need more stats. You don’t need more numbers about how the tent encampments are exploding. Or about the amount of money that the city is…

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Michael Shellenberger
Best-selling author, "Apocalypse Never" & "San Fransicko" : Dao Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : C.B.R Chair in Politics, Censorship, & Free Speech, UATX
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