Posted on 05/18/2022 4:59:58 PM PDT by KingofZion
*** Open-use drug havens such as San Francisco’s Tenderloin and L.A.'s skid row have become notorious and contentious, but those places have nothing on East Hastings, part of a neighborhood called Downtown Eastside. In every direction, there were needles in arms and butane lighters melting chunks of fentanyl, heroin and meth — the stench of burning chemicals was unavoidable. For many residents and business owners in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown, only a block away, East Hastings means theft, garbage, graffiti and a near-constant blare of sirens.
I came to Vancouver to see what can be learned as we debate safe consumption in California, where more than 6,000 people die each year from overdoses. Think about that. Six thousand is the roughly number of Californians who die each year from traffic accidents and firearms combined. Across the U.S., one person dies every five minutes from an overdose.
*** I met Bordas sitting at a metal table in a safe drug consumption site that lies behind a colorful gate off what locals call Piss Alley.
Eighteen others were already in various altered states or making preparations — smoking heroin and “down,” as fentanyl is called, gathering free supplies from yellow plastic bins, socializing at picnic tables surrounded by planter boxes of pansies. A handful of volunteers, mostly addicts themselves, watched for overdoses. Black pouches of the anti-overdose drug naloxone were copious, and nearly everyone was trained to use it.
In a tin bowl the size of a quarter, Bordas melted a lavender chunk of fentanyl until it turned into an bright violet syrup. The added coloring serves as a kind of street branding. He drew the liquid through a needle, then held the syringe between his teeth as he pulled up his jacket sleeve, revealing those veins, blue under his skin.
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Ask the owner of the LA Slime if he has the same work ethic. What a joke this rag has become.
Same kind of sick society that doses millions of children with psychotropic drugs year after year.
Now on center stage: hormones.
Vancouver, Canada? There’s one on the Oregon/Washington border.
Van island?
Society really has four choices here. I choose option #4.
1. Allow unrestricted drug use. And let the folks who overdose die.
2. Allow unrestricted drug use. Try to save those who overdose.
3. Try to keep a lid on the drug problem. Imprison the dealers and treat the users.
4. Try to end the drug problem. Execute the dealers and treat the users.
Some actually manage to be productive enough to buy their own drugs while they work.
Ok so it’s Canada.
The article is too long for me. Same for anyone who has no time for losers.
Druggies being encouraged/helped. The libertarian in me says go for legalization. Just find them a a place to do it away from the rest of us. If they die it’s no one’s fault.
It didn’t work in Basil, Switzerland. Drug dealers benefitted. They came from all over Europe to earn money-capitalists. The government can supply the drugs-problem solved.
Drug dealers are keeping people voting dem. Opium for the masses.. heroin, whatever will keep them from thinking rationally.. keep them in the chains of their abuse. Right where the globalists want them.
Vancouver East Side is the drug ghetto from which Robert Pickton lured something like 70 prostitute addicts to his pig farm by promising them free drugs. Once there, he sexually assaulted them, killed them, and butchered them. He sold some of them as meat, mixed with the pork he produced.
There have been at least a couple of documentaries made about the case, which unfolded over a period of around five years.
Pickton was affiliated with the Hells Angels. He operated a “charitable foundation” on his farm, which concealed his murder operation.
How about this
1 execute all drug dealers
2 all drugs will be taken out to wasteland and given away for free
3 first time drug user gets a choice, rehab or the wasteland.
4 second time drug user wasteland.
Next question?
Canada. And not on the island.
I lived and worked there in the early 80s. It was such a lovely, vibrant city. Really a gem. So safe
It breaks my heart to see what legalised drugs have done.
Drug addicts get three tries at rehab before they are exiled out of society. Traffickers get hanged.
Yes, Singapore is an example of what actually works. Every once in a while Singapore will execute a drug smuggler. And then the Pope and other worthies will cry and whine and complain.
Funny how we don’t hear from them when some poor kid overdoses and dies alone in a gutter.
“far away”
Yup, probably the only option not tried seriously and the one that offers a containment aspect.
There should be a lifestyle negative for negative behavior.
Drug addicts should not be given nearly free everything in famous glamour cities.
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I will never forget the images of a ‘drug park’ in a European country (perhaps Denmark or Holland) where drug use was legal. Sometimes real journalist set up a camera across the way, and the video showed very professional men and women walking up to the edge of the park, pulling up their sleeve, and the dealer would actually inject them right there. The ‘customer’ would roll their sleeve back down and be on their way. Did not take very long for Aids to skyrocket, since the dealer could not be bothered to use fresh needles.
Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
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