Posted on 09/02/2015 11:34:35 AM PDT by Theoria
It was early afternoon when the man with the twitching legs was dragged from the ground into an ambulance. Another man selling books washed away the vomit.
A man named Charlie Medina sat at the same spot a few days later, unable to remember his name before he fell into a trance with his jaw open and his eyes dilated.
And the lovers. They were unable to find a room. One pulled off the other’s shirt and her bra, then started to kiss her bruised breasts while a small crowd gathered to watch.
The people here on this stretch of 125th Street in East Harlem may change, but the drug remains the same: K2, also called synthetic marijuana, a potent mix of herbs and chemicals that has become widely used among homeless people in New York City.
A joint of K2 goes for a dollar or two, far cheaper than food. Many bodegas on 125th Street sell it. A marijuana joint, by comparison, costs about $5. Crowds of up to 80 or 100 homeless people come in on buses from a nearby shelter on Randalls Island, drawn by heroin recovery clinics nearby, and spend the day here under the influence of this cheaper narcotic. The block between Park and Lexington Avenues appears at times to be a street of zombies.
“This is a K2 nation out here,” one man says before walking away confused.
Nearby blocks tell a different story. A Whole Foods grocery is under construction on 125th Street. An upscale restaurant run by the celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson serves expensive soul food dishes nearby. But this stretch is a holdout of what Harlem looked like before the development push began — perhaps an even darker version of that time.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I know. Let’s invest in Harlem. What could go wrong?
Not sure how Whole Foods and such will put up with the local zombies running around.
I’m tired of hearing these kinds of stories about the poor, beaten up, trampled upon drug addicts and their increasing plight every time they try a new high. These people aren’t being forced to make animals of themselves, they choose it. I don’t care what the reasons are. They have the same ability to turn away from stupid lifestyles as anyone else and yet they choose them. Then, bleeding hearts re-re-re-re hab them, mostly without results other than another poor little addicted baby who certainly had no way to choose.
If anything, they should look around them at their peers. That would be enough to scare any sane person into sobriety.
And if they are indeed, not sane, then remove them from society instead of providing them with safe havens and the means to carry on with their lusts and damage to their families.
“Gotta to take either more of it or less of it, I can’t quite figure out which one”
“Yeah I tell you what it does takes... It takes a clear mind. That’s what it takes”
“You mean it takes a clear mind to take it, or a clear mind not to take it?”
“It takes a clear mind to make it”
“And if you invest some money, $50, imagine how much more you could get,” he said. “Imagine what you could do with that.”
Yes, imagine! You could make $20.
It’s a failure of society.
Lyndon Johnson destroyed the black family structure in only 2 generations and locked in the black vote for 100 years.
Now we’re reaping the bitter harvest.
America’s underclass actively search out ways to destroy themselves.
These people don’t know if they’re ecstatic or ludicrous...
This was actually a fairly good article, because it didn’t make them sound like sweet little puppies who were just misunderstood.
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