{"id":53609,"date":"2023-01-20T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-drug-dealer-speaks-out-against-san-francisco-drug-scene-its-becoming-a-place-for-druggy-tourism-53609"},"modified":"2023-01-20T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:00:15","slug":"former-drug-dealer-speaks-out-against-san-francisco-drug-scene-its-becoming-a-place-for-druggy-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-drug-dealer-speaks-out-against-san-francisco-drug-scene-its-becoming-a-place-for-druggy-tourism-53609","title":{"rendered":"Former drug dealer speaks out against San Francisco drug scene: It&#8217;s becoming a place for &#8216;druggy tourism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former drug dealer\u2013turned-activist Ricci Wynne spoke out against harm reduction policies and potential safe consumption sites in San Francisco on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wynne argued politicians are making the nation&#8217;s drug crisis worse by &#8220;moving the moral goalpost further away from where it should be,&#8221; adding they need to focus on abstinence-based programs and not harm reduction models. <\/p>\n<p>Wynne told host Jesse Watters San Francisco is considering proceeding with plans to create safe consumption sites, which would allow users to take illicit drugs in a medically supervised environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s]<i> <\/i>going to make the problem worse. It&#8217;s already created such a buzz that people are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-francisco-addicts-kept-state-of-bondage-syringe-exchange-programs-former-drug-user-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coming here to San Francisco<\/a> in droves for what I like to call druggie tourism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They come here because they know the consequences are minuscule if any, and they can come here [and] just use openly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when all the drug addicts come here, then what follows is more drug dealers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watters asked Ricci about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-francisco-children-open-air-drug-den-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viral video he took in 2022<\/a> showing children getting off a bus and walking past a long line of addicts and junkies on the sidewalk to get home from school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How are these young children processing [this]?&#8221; Watters asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I<i> <\/i>can only imagine,&#8221; Wynne responded. &#8220;You know, I grew up in a household where there was a lot of drug use and it had a negative impact on my life, so I&#8217;m imagining that these kids that are just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/watch-san-francisco-activist-exposes-bus-stops-hijacked-open-air-drug-markets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walking to and from school<\/a>, walking with their parents to go to the mall or go get some ice cream or whatever, and they&#8217;re forced to see this type of grotesque drug use because, let&#8217;s be honest, that&#8217;s what it is. I mean, it&#8217;s not just the run-of-the-mill.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-francisco-bay-area-mother-fentanyl-user-warns-city-enabling-sons-drug-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MOTHER OF FENTANYL USER WARNS CITY IS ENABLING SON&#8217;S DRUG USE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He described how he sees users smoking a joint on the sidewalk or shooting up methamphetamine or fentanyl into their necks on the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty grotesque,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Mayor London Breed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/san-francisco-emergency-tenderloin-overdose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared a state of emergency<\/a> in the city&#8217;s Tenderloin district in 2021 in response to drug overdose deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Breed said the city had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/mental-health\/drug-and-substance-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>650\u00a0overdose deaths<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in 2021 and at least 700 in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-drug-dealer-speaks-out-against-san-franciso-drug-scene-becoming-place-druggy-tourism\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-drug-dealer-speaks-out-against-san-franciso-drug-scene-becoming-place-druggy-tourism <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former drug dealer\u2013turned-activist Ricci Wynne spoke out against harm reduction policies and potential safe consumption sites in San Francisco on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime.&#8221; Wynne argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-53609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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