San Francisco political leaders have been steadily coming around to the idea of opening safe injection centers where addicts could shoot drugs in a controlled situation instead of outside on the sidewalk. And now, it seems, they won’t let state or federal law get in their way. “We’ve got to take chances,” said Board of Supervisors President London Breed, who in April became an unexpected champion of safe injection drug sites and was behind the creation of a task force that’s expected to recommend opening them. That attitude isn’t new. San Francisco has ignored state and federal law before, when it started a needle exchange program, opened medical cannabis clubs and married same-sex couples.

Source: San Francisco moving toward opening nation’s 1st safe injection clinic – San Francisco Chronicle