A walk down 16th Street in San Francisco revealed alleyways strewn with trash and open-air drug use. Near Caledonia Street, the strong stench of urine pervaded. Multiple people were scattered along the throughway, bent over and surrounded by drug paraphernalia. A woman was seen holding up a lighter toward a man with a glass tube in his mouth. He then blew out a billow of smoke into the air.
Though Mayor Daniel Lurie has declared the city’s drug crisis an emergency, there’s debate about how to tackle it and whether enough is being done.
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