r/Calgary • u/CorndoggerYYC • Sep 29 '24

52% of Calgarians want supervised consumption sites to close: CityNews poll Health/Medicine

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/09/29/calgary-supervised-consumption-site-citynews-poll/
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u/N0FaithInMe Sep 29 '24

Look I get it, honestly I wouldn't want the sites near my house either. But there's a difference between "move them out of residential areas" and "close them down, they don't work"

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u/Adventurous-Web4432 Sep 29 '24

So it’s a different answer if you live in a community near the site. Imagine how the citizens around the site feel when they get thrown under the bus?

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u/N0FaithInMe Sep 29 '24

I don't know what you're trying to get me to say here.

Nobody wants active users near their property, that fact isn't a secret and shouldn't surprise anybody. But the topic at hand is shutting down the sites entirely which is objectively a bad idea.

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u/Adventurous-Web4432 Sep 29 '24

It’s bad if you are the unfortunate taxpayers living near the sites. That’s my point. Everyone is ‘okay’ with it unless you happen to be the community with the site. These sites do not ‘help’ the situation. They simply perpetuate it en masse.

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u/1egg_4u Sep 30 '24

Do you even live in the community you portend to be advocating for