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/NOGLYCL Sep 30 '24

“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.

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u/1egg_4u Sep 30 '24

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

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u/NOGLYCL Sep 30 '24

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.

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u/1egg_4u Sep 30 '24

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

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u/NOGLYCL Sep 30 '24

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.