‘Most hippie’ town in Washington outlaws drugs after ODs in streets, fentanyl death of 5-year-old

[rangerrebew]

 
‘Most hippie’ town in Washington outlaws drugs after ODs in streets, fentanyl death of 5-year-old
By Marjorie Hernandez
May 7, 2023 11:24am  Updated
 
Bellingham, a town that once prided itself as the “most hippie” in Washington, has taken drastic action to outlaw drugs, after statewide decriminalization led to spiking crime and child overdose deaths.

The proudly liberal city of 92,000 has been pushed to its limit, with the fire department responding to 223 overdoses — 2.5 calls a day — between January and April 12, according to Cascadia Daily.

Among the dead are two teenagers and a 5-year-old, who overdosed on fentanyl in March and was found dead by police with foam coming from her mouth.

Overdoses have become so commonplace, one victim was dead for hours before anyone even noticed, according to Bellingham council member Edwin Williams.

 https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/liberal-washington-town-bans-drugs-after-ods-fentanyl-deaths/

[bigheadfred]

Outlawing drugs always works. They would have better luck outlawing stupid people.

[mountaineer]

Kind of like that old definition of a conservative: a liberal who got mugged.

[Kamaji]

Kind of like that old definition of a conservative: a liberal who got mugged.

Exactly.

[Smokin Joe]

At least they have the intelligence to realize that their previous approach was just not working.

Though, admittedly, at some point licentiousness gets hard to double down on.