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Finally, I won one. Well, not the first and not the only, but against my fears that Woke would triumph, Philadelphia City Council overwhelmingly rejected the insanity of so-called “supervised injection sites.” The site of the shooting gallery that was stopped dead by South Philadelphians Well-intentioned but clueless advocates started
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First, sincere sympathy to anyone who has lost a loved one to the deadly fentanyl tide unleashed on America by China. This may seem harsh: If the victim bought their drugs from a “friend” or nonauthorized source, don’t blame anyone but them. Blaming the victim? Yes, and it is
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Is the Department of Justice playing Philadelphians dirty, as was claimed Wednesday afternoon? More on that in a moment. Federal law prohibits places that sell or enable the use of illegal drugs. That’s why, last year, an appeals court ruled against Philadelphia’s attempt to open a “supervised injection
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Elections matter. Faced with howls of protest led by conservatives, the Biden Administration policy that was described as crack pipes for addicts was quickly reversed, to assure citizens their tax money would not be going to providing nice, clean pipes to crack addicts. The pipes-to-addicts line was not a fully
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I’ve never been much interested in head shops. As in drug paraphernalia. Never been a druggie — wrong generation. My drugs were tobacco and alcohol, both legal. At least for now. My interest in the coming closing of Wonderland, near Rittenhouse Square, was just academic. I know the store because
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The argument in favor of so-called safe injection sites, which are not safe, can be reduced to two words: Saves lives. That is true, although the number to be saved is very small, 24-76, the city estimates. There are two arguments against: 1- It is illegal. 2- It enables addiction.
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Having reduced the consumption (or at least the sale in the city) of tobacco and sugary (and many non-sugary) beverages through onerous taxes, Mayor Jim “Do Gooder” Kenney now has decided to increase the use of deadly drugs. To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff, “What a city!” There is no question increased