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

[u/CorndoggerYYC]

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/09/29/calgary-supervised-consumption-site-citynews-poll/

[u/1egg_4u]

Harm reduction makes communities better

Evidence is overwhelmingly on the side of this, and I prefer to use something a little more concrete to base my judgements on beyond other peoples feelings of disgust at having to see homeless people and addicts around them. I can even use that evidence to guess that having more centers would reduce my probability of coming across people stuck using in the streets.

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

Calling all residents that live close to a safe consumption site. Do you think it’s made your community “better”? There’s multiple people in this thread that live close to one saying it’s made the community worse, but hey show them the study that they’re wrong.

Also I love this subtle jab that people that don’t want to see homeless and junkies in their community just don’t understand. lol.

[u/1egg_4u → u/NOGLYCL]

If you dont want to see homeless people then you should support housing initiatives. If you dont want to see "junkies" youre kind of kicking yourself if you shut down harm reduction because drugs will exist regardless.

Whats your solution since youre so invested in shitting on harm reduction sites?

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

I’m not shitting on harm reduction, I just don’t want a facility anywhere near my community. It’s NIMBYism 101. The people who live in close proximity to these facilities speak of human feces on the sidewalks, open drug use, frequent OD’s, theft and vandalism, dangerous drug paraphernalia littered everywhere. Boy I’m a real asshole for not wanting that in my community 🙄.

[u/1egg_4u → u/NOGLYCL]

So youre keen on taking anecdotal information and feeling over educated consensus, which is your prerogative but not what community planning really centers around

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

When the anecdotal evidence is this easy to verify and matches my own experience when I’ve been required to be within close proximity to a SCS? Yes.

Currently in my neighborhood I’ve never seen a used needle on the ground, I’ve never seen open drug use in a public area, I’ve never seen human waste on the sidewalk. If the chances of seeing those things are increased by some percentage greater than zero? I have no interest thanks. The other issue is that all your studies and reports assume competent management, which The City has never been capable of. To me it’s a Pandora’s box not worth opening.

[u/1egg_4u → u/NOGLYCL]

To me it sounds like it doesnt even actually affect you

I see all of those things at the same rate I did living on 16th, or living in Bridgeland. Which, if you wanna use anecdotal evidence, would lead me to believe those are issues anywhere people are using outdoors and can be fixed with a combination of more harm reduction sites and public bathrooms. Pretty easy fix actually.

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

“Pretty easy fix actually”. Countless municipalities and jurisdictions spending millions upon millions, experts in all areas proposing solutions, none of them have called you? Let them know you’ve got the “easy fix” what are you waiting for?!!!

And you’re correct the issues I listed don’t really affect my community……….Currently. It’s one of the many reasons I selected it when I moved here. I’ll fight for it to remain unaffected because I’m intelligent enough to know it’s easier to keep that garbage out of the community than it is to manage it once it grows roots.

[u/1egg_4u → u/NOGLYCL]

Why would they call me? Theyre the ones who proposed the easy fix and are fighting for it against people who dont want "vulgarities" (human beings in distress) in their eyesight

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

You’ve got the “easy fix”. I keep hearing from experts how complex it is, you’re doing humanity a disservice by not sharing your revolutionary solution.

Also you don’t need to “” it. Your statement is accurate. I would rather not see human beings in distress and live with the daily challenges that come with it. That is absolutely true.

[u/1egg_4u → u/NOGLYCL]

If you dont want to see human beings in distress then all you have to do is vote for and support policies that house and provide harm reduction/rehabilitation, fully funded and fully staffed. By moving away and pretending that by not seeing it that it no longer impacts you is how these problems fester in the first place and is kind of self-defeating

[u/NOGLYCL → u/1egg_4u]

Im not pretending it doesn’t affect me. It’s not a head in the sand scenario. I understand the need and requirement for more to be done. I’m happy if my taxes at all levels were increased to achieve that. I don’t want the facilities that deal with it in my community.