Having spent three years homeless in San Francisco, I may have an idea or two about this topic.

It is not drugs that causes the problems, but on a deeper level it is the nonprofits that are receiving funding at the local and state and federal level that attracts the drug problem to San Francisco.

People are attracted to San Francisco for a number of reasons.

Maybe they would like be employed by or want to operate their own nonprofit.

Maybe it is the free housing and free money and free food that attracts the drug users to San Francisco.

And now it is too late to stop the nonprofits..

If you take the funding away from the nonprofits, they will form brigades that harass political candidates until they get back their funding.

Oh, my bad, they are already doing that on Twitter and CNN and MSNBC and and and..

I have attended at least a dozen meetings at city hall or other similar places where groups of money hungry people sit around and plot and scheme about how to create a service that would be eligible for funding..

In many cases the actual drug dealers end up controlling and operating many of the nonprofit services.