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WeHo Mayor To Meet With Grindr CEO About App’s Meth Problem
Okay, Grindr, we need to have an intervention. The West Hollywood based app is coming under fire for facilitating drug sales, and now city officials are demanding a meeting with the CEO.
Other apps, like Scruff, do what they can to curb drug references, but it’s unclear whether Grindr has done the same. Weho City Council members are growing increasingly troubled by the app’s use by drug dealers. Many of those politicians are personally acquainted with Joel Simkhai, and said that they plan to question him about what the company can be doing differently.
In addition, Council Member Lindsey Horvath said that her appointee to the Public Safety Commission, Estevan Montemayor, had asked the local Sheriff for a report on the problem.
It’s unfortunate that it took so long for officials to deal with the issue. Many of Weho’s City Council members are gay, and are surely aware of how people use Grindr. Even after local news reported on the drug use, it took days for anyone at City Hall to respond.
Beyond reaching out to Joel, Council Member John D’Amico suggested that the city could be doing more to reach out to people prior to addiction, warning them of the consequences. And those consequences are pretty bad: permanent brain and heart damage, high blood pressure that can kill you, malnutrition and infections, tooth loss, depression, stroke, epilepsy — just to name a few.
Ultimately, any steps that Weho is able to pressure Grindr to take will probably be a good thing. The app is used all over the world, so if they can take measures to report or restrict drug chatter, it’ll affect millions of people.
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