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Second-hand crack smoke is now a problem
Oregon Catalyst ^ | August 28, 2023 | Oregon Watchdog

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: crack; oregon; smoke
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1 posted on 08/28/2023 3:23:53 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: ten18; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
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2 posted on 08/28/2023 3:24:43 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

FENTANYL smoke. Nobody uses crack in Portland.


3 posted on 08/28/2023 3:25:40 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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To: Twotone

Yup, fentanyl as well and it’s everywhere. But hey everyone, sell your car and take transit... get high for free!


4 posted on 08/28/2023 3:26:22 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Twotone

I’m glad I get mine firsthand.


5 posted on 08/28/2023 3:27:03 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.


6 posted on 08/28/2023 3:28:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Twotone

Are they going to make them smoke 50’ from the building like cigarettes?


7 posted on 08/28/2023 3:35:39 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
No doubt.
My cigarettes, my beer and lastly, but not leastly. My Crack is firsthand!

What a bunch of sissy's.😉

8 posted on 08/28/2023 3:37:15 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: MotorCityBuck

Ewe, secondhand beer.


9 posted on 08/28/2023 3:41:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Maybe I could have worded that better.
Damned Crack.😉


10 posted on 08/28/2023 4:05:50 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Twotone; FRiends

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.


11 posted on 08/28/2023 4:06:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Twotone

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.


12 posted on 08/28/2023 4:09:15 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


13 posted on 08/28/2023 4:11:59 PM PDT by webheart
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To: webheart

“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.


14 posted on 08/28/2023 4:33:30 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Twotone

Free crack pipes now a problem


15 posted on 08/28/2023 4:45:44 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Twotone

Affected.

Why do I always have to be the bad guy?


16 posted on 08/28/2023 4:51:35 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZnF67fCo6g


17 posted on 08/28/2023 4:55:59 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Twotone

where exactly is this?

asking for my friend, hunter


18 posted on 08/28/2023 4:57:00 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Lol 😂


19 posted on 08/28/2023 5:00:51 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: joshua c

next door to Hunter’s new digs in Malibu, CA


20 posted on 08/28/2023 5:01:25 PM PDT by jpp113
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