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On 11/22/23 12:43, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/most-hippie-town-washington-town-bans- drugs-spike-overdoses

Hippies never used Fentanyl. Some rare birds smoked opium. Cannabis, LSD, pyslocibin, Mescaline and a few other hallucinogens
were their drugs.

The old song goes if I remember correctly goes "Uppers and Downers are bad for you, It ain's like drinking wine." Fentanyl is
most definetly a downer. So we are trying to not used that crap.

A town once deemed "most hippie" in Washington recently outlawed drug use after a spike in fentanyl overdoses that included the death of a 5-year-
old girl.

Edwin Williams, a city council member in Bellingham, Washington, said overdoses became so commonplace in his city that one dead body was left on
a bench for 12 hours.

"A man was sitting on the curb in a parking lot with his head bowed, right out in the open … and a police officer told me that he had been dead for
at least 12 hours," Williams told the New York Post in a report on
Bellingham published Sunday. "It shocked me to my core."

The Bellingham City Council voted in April to make open drug use an arrestable crime – a decision that came two years after the Washington legislature decriminalized hard drugs in response to a decision at the state's Supreme Court.

HIGH CRIMES: SHERIFF DETAILS WHAT CALIFORNIA DRUG LAWS ARE DOING TO STATE

The reversal from city leaders came after a 5-year-old overdosed on
fentanyl in March, as well as two teenagers. The Bellingham Fire
Department said it responded to more than two overdoses per day from
January to April 12 – a rate nearly double that of the year prior, according to Cascadia Daily.

"I have lived here for 30 years, and no, I haven’t seen anything like this," Williams told the New York Post. "I would characterize our city as
one that is trying and willing to bend over backwards to help and provide people with programs to address either addiction or homelessness."

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY NOT 'CONTRIBUTING' TO US FENTANYL CRISIS, BIDEN AMBASSADOR SAYS

"But at this point – the combination of COVID, the pervasiveness of fentanyl and the state law being changed – pushed everything to the
limit," Williams continued. "It was just the perfect storm, and at some point, something had to be done."

In 2018, local media boasted that Bellingham in particular was named by
the site OnlyInYourState as "the most hippie town in Washington." Since
then, however, casualties from drug use have spiked.

Overdose deaths in Bellingham jumped from 11 in 2018 to 89 in 2022,
according to the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A decision at the Washington Supreme Court in 2021 struck down a law that made simple drug possession a felony. State legislators responded to the decision with a drug decriminalization law that is set to expire in July.
The state Senate attempted but failed to push through a bill criminalizing drug use last month.

Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., has pushed to end decriminalization in the state
in response to the fentanyl crisis.

later
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