Posted on 08/28/2023 3:23:53 PM PDT by Twotone
Our office was at a breakfast meeting where the random subject came up of employees being effected by second-hand drug smoke on their way to work. One man complained that his associate was exposed to it just outside their building. She became disorientated and quickly fell ill. He then took the issue to the building manager to press the building security guard to sweep the whole block every morning of the homeless squatters who were doing drugs. Having private security move trespassing drug addicts off a city block is extremely difficult as they have little resources, little manpower and police are often unable to help.
A second person at our meeting, who works at one of Oregon’s largest law firms, also shared a similar story showing that their employees also are feeling sick and feeling harassed by the toxic drug environment being produced by open drug use. For this law firm their employees feel it most from using public transit. The photo above shows one example from San Fransisco’s BART transit system that made the local news and represents how many addicts use their drugs sitting next to people.
Although the subject of second-hand contact highs is still undefined and unstudied, many warn it is a serious problem. It can be more complicated knowing that street drugs can be combination of various toxic and poisonous substances not traditionally found in common drugs. Oregon has decriminalized so many drugs and produced so many addicts that the State itself is a massive experiment of unknown chemical concoctions.
Furthermore, Oregon health law prohibits smoking within 10 feet of a building entrance. Homeless are allowed to violate this rule. Also homeless are allowed to block sidewalks for disabled people.
These are more liberal double standards — and this latest one comes at the health of the public.
FENTANYL smoke. Nobody uses crack in Portland.
Yup, fentanyl as well and it’s everywhere. But hey everyone, sell your car and take transit... get high for free!
I’m glad I get mine firsthand.
Crack, Fentanyl, whatever....
Third World problems in a Third World City.
Isn’t it funny all the years I worked in a conservative city, I never had to worry about bleep like this.
Are they going to make them smoke 50’ from the building like cigarettes?
What a bunch of sissy's.😉
Ewe, secondhand beer.
Maybe I could have worded that better.
Damned Crack.😉
Why isn’t Mother Government going after THIS kind of ‘second hand smoke’ with the VENGEANCE that they used against Big Tobacco and smokers in general?
I guess going up against the Drug Cartels is a whole ‘nother ballgame, Hey, LAWYERS? I mean, you could lose a limb or a family member or your LIFE crossing those guys!
Yeah. Smart move, STATES, to legalize pot and such. Brings the problems MUCH closer to home so EVERYONE can enjoy it!
*SPIT* Morons. The Wisconsin legislature bandies it about every so often. So far we’ve been able to keep all drugs illegal. However, do NOT touch our beer, wine or Old Fashioneds. ;)
I kicked the dopers OUT of my life. One was my HUSBAND and one was my Step Son. Never looked back. No quarter! Losers.
How are we going to survive as a society when the people who inform us of the news do not know the difference between crack and crank? Crack is cocaine and is very rare in the drug world. It is a depressant mostly and pain reliever. Most people don’t use it because the effects are not as exciting as methamphetamine which is crank. Crank is practically ubiquitous. It is a stimulant. People smoke it by sublimating it with a flame and inhaling the vapors thereof. It has a rapid onset and a fairly long duration of action. Most of the toothless crazy homeless people use crank. Crank causes them not to be able to sleep and so they get massive sleep deprivation psychosis and permanent changes to their brain chemistry. It’s why there are so many homeless people.
Legalizing marijuana is not the cause of the crank epidemic. Crank has been destroying lives since the 70’s and 80’s and it gets worse because the effects are cumulative. Once a life is destroyed by crank it will stay destroyed for most people.
“Crank causes them not to be able to sleep and so they get massive sleep deprivation psychosis and permanent changes to their brain chemistry.”
Not just changes to brain chemistry — that would generally be reversible. Changes to neuroanatomy and volume of grey matter.
Free crack pipes now a problem
Affected.
Why do I always have to be the bad guy?
where exactly is this?
asking for my friend, hunter
Lol 😂
next door to Hunter’s new digs in Malibu, CA
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