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Taxpayer-funded drug paraphernalia in LA –– a cruel and cynical disgrace

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From the department of Orwellian language we get batches of words like “harm reduction” and “Skid Row Care Campus.”

These terms describe government policies that hand addicts the tools to get high –– again and again, every day. (Then taxpayers pay to stash the addicts in hotel rooms, among other non-solutions.)

This is, of course, sheer lunacy.

It’s also the official policy of the governments of Los Angeles, LA County and California.

As revealed in The California Post, anyone can walk into LA’s Skid Row and obtain a range of taxpayer-funded drug paraphernalia –– no questions asked.

Over several days, journalists received syringes, crack pipes, containers to mix injectables and more, reporters for City Journal found.

That’s not care, and it’s not reducing harm.

It’s perpetuating, enabling –– and deepening –– addiction.

At taxpayer expense. Over and over and over again, as the city’s homeless crisis grows. 

Funny, isn’t it, how we never see “Your tax dollars at work” signs outside Skid Row?

Los Angeles, LA........

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