https://freerepublic.com/tag/austenhufford/ en-us Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:57:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389908/posts The Skid Row Care Campus—funded by local, state, and federal dollars—handed us drug paraphernalia. As governor of California, Gavin Newsom has repeatedly supported “harm reduction” policies, which enable drug use in the name of making it “safer.” He created the state’s Harm Reduction Initiative, which funded “syringe services programs” for “people who inject and smoke fentanyl and/or methamphetamines.” His Department of Public Health has endorsed distributing syringes, glass pipes, and “[c]ontainers for mixing injectable drugs” to drug users. Newsom argued earlier this year that harm-reduction tactics “increase the like­li­hood of people enter­ing sub­stance use treat­ment.” But do California’s harm-reduction programs... City Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389908/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:57:53 GMT