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Answer to drug difficulty
ought to come from prime

Re: “Drug fees increase oversight questions” (Web page A1, April 6).

As a San Jose native, this text leaves me speechless.

Simply final 12 months, state Sen. David Cortese expanded fentanyl prevention applications and the distribution of Narcan kits to fight growing fentanyl overdoses. How might the chief director of the police union proceed to import the identical medicine that her friends are working to get rid of, which might be killing residents?

As a public well being scholar, I see this as a public well being downside. San Jose has a whole bunch of ads concerning the risks of fentanyl, however what impact do downstream approaches like this have on general elimination?

Public well being is all-encompassing and I really imagine that we want extra upstream/preventative approaches to points that have an effect on our communities in any means, particularly in instances with no clear connection to public well being.

Sofia Valenzuela
Berkeley

Indictment doesn’t
imperil different instances

Re: “Trump indictment is a dangerous wager for New York and nation” (Web page A7, April 6).

Professor Noah Feldman’s thesis that the New York indictment of Donald Trump could imperil prosecutions in different jurisdictions doesn’t stand up to evaluation. Feldman is definitely proper that the New York case is the least critical. His concern could be legitimate if the case had been to bear trial and appeals earlier than different prosecutions are introduced. However in the actual world, the varied felony instances will exist concurrently.

The Georgia timetable appears to point that submitting the election interference case is imminent. The highly effective case towards Trump for purloining authorities data, together with labeled paperwork, and obstruction, have to be about ripe. The federal investigation of Trump’s Jan. 6 interference with the peaceable switch of energy seems to be in its remaining phases.

As soon as all instances are filed, it gained’t matter who filed first. The one relevance of New York going first could also be to make it simpler for different prosecutors to pursue the previous president.

Michael Quinlivan
San Jose

Texas should cease
making an attempt to ban abortion

As a girl, my blood boils to listen to that Texas has banned abortion, and but I’m so grateful that Gov. Gavin Newsom assures ladies in California that we’re protected and won’t have to fret concerning the worst-case state of affairs.

Banning abortion won’t cease or forestall ladies from getting pregnant. As an alternative it’ll create extra harmful conditions for girls who have to terminate their pregnancies. So long as states like California enable abortion tablets and create a protected haven to have entry to abortion for girls in want, ladies can proceed their lives with out placing themselves at risk.

It must be unlawful for states to make choices a couple of girl’s physique with regards to their security and well-being. Texas must legalize abortion as soon as once more and eternally for all ladies with no hesitation.

Natalie Omega
San Jose

Clarence Thomas is
a examine in lack of ethics

Re: “Thomas accepted luxurious holidays” (Web page A1, April 7).