Inside Skid Row’s Spice epidemic, the dangerous cost of a dollar high
LaVion Phillips, 24-years-old, smokes Spice, synthetic marijuana, on San Pedro Street in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles,
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August 30, 2016.
By Denise Quan
LA Daily News
09/02/16
Horace Phillips sits outside his makeshift store on San Pedro Street in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles
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The Rev. Andy Bales heads out the glass doors of the Union Rescue Mission in a suit and tie. He rolls his wheelchair toward the sun-baked concrete of Skid Row, then stops and wrinkles his nose. “That putrid smell you’re smelling right now — that’s somebody smoking Spice,” he says. On this block of San Pedro Street in downtown Los Angeles, just south of 5th Street, more people are openly smoking synthetic marijuana — known on the street as Spice — than are smoking conventional cigarettes.
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Joe_Wazzzz
The purpose of some people's lives is to serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of us. There are few things worse in this world than losing someone you love to drugs, socially or physically, but if you know a druggie, and most of us do, you will learn that only they can save themselves. The outcry for government intervention will deliver easily forecasted results. The government will use the act of controlling drugs to create more government employees made loyal by the promise of government pensions and corral us all into digital money to invade our privacy, control our spending and tax us with impunity.
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PavlosX Joe_Wazzzz
Put an end to this. Vote Trump and return America back to sanity.
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#1: BorisY To: All (#0)
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SeattleConservative
I don't know what the problem is. Drugs are cool- Obama uses them, so do all the Hollywood stars. Every movie now has the lead actors getting high. Snoop Dog is a hero- so are those idiots Rogen and Franco. Washington Governor Jay Inslee says it's cool, so do Colorado and DC
Face it- drugs are cool, and if a 14-year-old girl has to sell her body for drugs, who are we to say it's wrong?
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BorisY posted on 2016-09-05 15:55:30 Reply Private Reply
#2: ConservingFreedom To: BorisY (#0)
I agree 100%.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-09-05 16:54:13 Reply Private Reply