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New York City’s Drug Experiment (safe injection sites)
City Journal ^ | 12/06/2021 | Charles Fain Lehman

Posted on 12/10/2021 4:09:00 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

Step off the New York City subway at 125th and Lexington, and you will find yourself in what can only be called an open-air drug market. The subway entrance is an easy place to score—the day I visited, one man stood yelling, “Drugs! Drugs! Drugs!” like a ballpark vendor. On every block, people slump where they stand, “nodding out” from opioid intoxication. ---SNIP---

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that the sites contravene the Controlled Substances Act’s so-called Crack House Statute, which prohibits opening a space with the express purpose of facilitating drug use.

Four of the city’s five district attorneys have said that they will not prosecute the SCSs

(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
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Re-imagine a world where people who really cared about black lives would shut down drug dealers and demand laws were enforced instead of a world where they looted stores and attacked police officers.
1 posted on 12/10/2021 4:09:00 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Safe places for injections, free needles, free narcan.........this nation enables and provides for criminal drug addiction.


2 posted on 12/10/2021 4:13:40 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Hamsterdam!


3 posted on 12/10/2021 4:14:27 PM PST by JoanSmith
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To: Kid Shelleen

You can’t this or that but Drugs come on down , Welcome the the Demonut World


4 posted on 12/10/2021 4:18:50 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Kid Shelleen

I know that Mayor-elect Adams is talking big but I guarantee you he’s going to cave and becomes another Dinkins. Once BLM starts pulling out the Uncle Tom or House N-word card he’s toast.


5 posted on 12/10/2021 4:31:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is going to be a total fustercluck-one that isn’t going to end well...

I doubt it will do much to lure tourists to NYC to wander around and spend money, either...


6 posted on 12/10/2021 4:31:56 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

One way for film companies to save money. No need for elaborate sets for dystopian science fiction screenplays such as Escape From New York.

New York can be filmed by PBS documentary crews.


7 posted on 12/10/2021 4:35:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: caww

When William S. Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch his supporters had to convince the first publisher to take it. Junkie, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express and others could now be slight variations on nonfiction about NYC.

Burroughs ended up living in Lawrence, Kansas in a regular house on a normal street from 1981-1997. He kept up his strong advocacy for gun ownership to the end of his life.


8 posted on 12/10/2021 4:43:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Kid Shelleen

You should be able to get a 4th covid booster with your heroin.


9 posted on 12/10/2021 4:57:28 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: caww

How dare you forget the monthly SS payments and free Medicaid/Medicare!

And housing vouchers!


10 posted on 12/10/2021 5:02:50 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Kid Shelleen

I think Bill Clinton has office space on 125th.


11 posted on 12/10/2021 5:04:20 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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>> I think Bill Clinton has office space on 125th <<

It’s not a stretch to think that a guy who was ogling a mummy would be interested in a crack whore…


12 posted on 12/10/2021 5:08:57 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz )
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To: JoanSmith

“ Hamsterdam”

That is just wrong on so many levels. And one of the funniest things I ever heard.

/facepalm


13 posted on 12/10/2021 5:23:02 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Permitting drug abuse is a crime for little people....

Feeding into the slavery of opioid addiction is nothing but pure evil...

What’s next?

Tax payer funded heroin?

Tax payer funded rides to turn tricks to buy heroin?

The city buying stolen merchandise from addicts?

Bah...this will not end well...


14 posted on 12/10/2021 6:01:27 PM PST by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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