thank you, gary mccoy, for sharing your comments . next speaker, please. and if we have anyone else who's ready to give public comment, if you could line up along that wall there, we'll get through each of you. hi, supervisors. my name is andy stone and i'm with the san francisco aids foundation. and i help coordinate the hiv advocacy network, which is roughly about 800 folks in the city who are hiv and lgbtq activists fighting to end the hiv aids epidemic and to improve the lives of communities most impacted by hiv . and as we know, substance use is a huge issue not only for hiv communities, but also for lgbtq folks. i think it's absolutely critical that we not waste time pursuing initiatives that are actively harmful in the midst of an unprecedented overdose crisis that is killing hundreds of people and that we not pursue things like criminalization that only serve to disrupt the ways in which people are trying to live day in and day out without addressing some of the core needs that they're facing around housing, around food, around and low barrier acce

thank you, gary mccoy, for sharing your comments . next speaker, please.nd if we have anyone else who's ready to give public comment, if you could line up along that wall there, we'll get through each of you. hi, supervisors. my name is andy stone and i'm with the san francisco aids foundation. and i help coordinate the hiv advocacy network, which is roughly about 800 folks in the city who are hiv and lgbtq activists fighting to end the hiv aids epidemic and to improve the lives of communities most impacted by hiv . and as we know, substance use is a huge issue not only for hiv communities, but also for lgbtq folks. i think it's absolutely critical that we not waste time pursuing initiatives that are actively harmful in the midst of an unprecedented overdose crisis that is killing hundreds of people and that we not pursue things like criminalization that only serve to disrupt the ways in which people are trying to live day in and day out without addressing some of the core needs that they're facing around housing, around food, around and low barrier access