BOSTON — Massachusetts Democrats are preparing to unleash legalized drug dens across the Commonwealth, pushing two radical bills that critics warn will plunge neighborhoods into chaos.

S.1391 wipes out possession charges, declaring that drug use alone can’t be the basis for a criminal case. Translation: heroin in your pocket, fentanyl in your veins, cocaine on the table — none of it a crime unless you tack on another offense. Judges lose the power to order addicts into treatment. Police lose the authority to act. The message from Beacon Hill is clear: use what you want, where you want.

Then comes S.1393, which supercharges so-called “harm reduction centers” by giving them sweeping immunity from the law. Staff, operators, and addicts inside would be untouchable. The result? Government-protected shooting galleries — legalized drug dens where heroin and fentanyl flow freely while cops stand helpless at the curb.

Democrats dress it up as compassion, but Boston is already living the nightmare. In the South End, children walk to school past addicts collapsed on the sidewalks, stepping over bodies and discarded needles as if it were part of the morning routine. Parents dodge overdosing strangers outside playgrounds. Storefronts sit empty while dealers circle like sharks. It looks less like “harm reduction” and more like the opening scene of a horror film.

We’ve seen this story before. In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the promise of supervised injection sites turned into a civic disaster — blocks overrun with open drug use, neighborhoods gutted, businesses destroyed, families long gone. What was pitched as public health became permanent public squalor.

Today, Beacon Hill invited the public to weigh in, holding a marathon hearing in Gardner Auditorium and online. Furious residents lined up to testify, warning lawmakers not to make Massachusetts the next Vancouver. Parents begged legislators not to let their kids grow up in a state where needles and slumped-over addicts are just part of the scenery.

Democrats call it progress. Families call it surrender. And if these bills pass, Massachusetts won’t just be dabbling in “harm reduction.” It will be legalizing the collapse of its own communities, handing entire neighborhoods over to fentanyl and despair.