It seems like some legislators in Sacramento do not realize or do not want to acknowledge the severity of the drug overdose crisis in cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. These were the jurisdictions included in gay state Senator Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) pilot safe consumption site legislation, Senate Bill 57, which earlier this month was punted to 2022. Wiener has been trying to get this bill passed for years, and even with a supermajority of Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento, he can't get it done. Meanwhile, overdose deaths in the city continue to flummox officials, demonstrating the urgency for this type of program. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in May that there were more than 700 drug overdose deaths in the city in 2020, eclipsing 257 deaths here from COVID-19. During the first four months of this year, there were 252 accidental overdose deaths. The Chronicle reported this week that there has been a slight dip in the number of overdose deaths since its article from a couple of months ago, but the number is still stubbornly high — 344 in the first six months of 2021. As we report this week, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was alarmed in June when he learned there were three overdose deaths in the LGBTQ Castro neighborhood on the same day. These people all died indoors, he noted in a Facebook post, meaning they were probably not among the unhoused residents of the neighborhood.