Free Booze, Pot, and Smokes for San Francisco s Homeless
San Francisco officials deny direct involvement in a controversial program, funded by private sources, that provides free alcohol, cannabis, and cigarettes to homeless people living in the city s hotels during the Covid-19 outbreak. After news about the special deliveries was leaked and caused embarrassment on social media, the city s Department of Public Health issued a statement claiming that rumors that guests of San Francisco s alternative housing program are receiving taxpayer-funded deliveries of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco are false.
Except they re not false. DPH, which administers and oversees the program, is staffed by city workers, including doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, and security personnel. The department manages, stores, and distributes the substances. Employee time is involved. Thus, the program is financed by taxpayers, even if an outside group provides some of the funding. According to DPH spokesperson Jenna Lane, the philanthropists who helped purchase the substances wish to remain anonymous.
I would have to have a lot of money before I would contribute to this and then I wouldn’t anyway.