Vergiftet: Wie Fentanyl die Pandora Avenue von Victoria vom Hub in der Innenstadt zum Open-Air-Drogenmarkt verändert hat
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Hasn’t that area been that way even back in the early 90s? I know ow Hastings was basically the same… long before fentynal.
“Two years ago, council voted against a proposed ban on drug use in libraries and community centres. Such a ban, said Coun. Susan Kim, would have fundamentally gone against what those facilities are all about.
People with addictions “might need to medicate,” she said. “What if they need to medicate as soon as they’re done using a public computer at the library, applying for a job?” Ms. Kim said. “This just creates barriers to the people we’re trying to serve.”
How the hell did someone like Susan Kim gets to be elected for council.
The infiltration of extremist lunatics into our local government institutions should be viewed just as dangerous as foreign i interference in our elections .
It isn’t fentanyl but the way we approach drug use. If it wasn’t fentanyl it would be something else, as long as we remove personal accountability and excuse escapism instead of dealing with problems, this will continue. We removed and continue to eliminate all aspects of hardship and coping from peoples lives and then act surprised when they don’t have the resilience and turn to drugs to escape their problems. Then we blame society for not giving them a better life. Nobody ever grew strong by taking the easy road and succeed at everything, it is through strife and failure that we grow as people and we become strong and resilient as individuals.
As a long-term resident of Victoria, this article is vivid and accurate. Citizens, businesses and police are so exasperated by the behaviour stemming from drug abuse that long-term involuntary care has become a genuinely enticing answer. The situation is so chronic and disgusting that most Victorians are just too tired to question the burdens our stressed health sector would bear if we were to aggressively intervene. They just want the situation to go away.
The whole topic is bleak. Ordinary people are incapable of addressing persistent drug abuse and criminal behaviour, businesses and institutions suffer financially and/or leave the area, emergency services despise Pandora, the local government is reluctant to attempt heavy-handed approaches, and we have a lot of sick Canadians suffering physically, mentally and financially from decades of drug abuse and homelessness with no way out but death.