TURNING NURSES INTO STREET BARTENDERS SEEMS A BIT OF A WASTE

-- "The City of San Francisco is providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics at taxpayer expense under a little-known 'Managed Alcohol Program.'" --

Oh... it gets better...

-- "'Our goal at MAP is not to decrease the amount of alcohol that is consumed, or to taper someone towards abstinence It is to mitigate the interpersonal harms associated with unsafe alcohol use.'" --

How exactly does 'more booze' translate into fewer 'interpersonal harms?'