Thread: Look How the Liberal Drug Culture has Destroyed Eureka, California

Look how the liberal drug culture has destroyed Eureka, California


May 10, 2018

Ed Straker



In normal circumstances, Eureka, California, would be a paradise. It's situated in northern California on the Pacific Coast and is simply beautiful, sandwiched between rugged redwood forests and an implacable open sea. The weather is perfect, constantly between 50 and 75 degrees year round. It's isolated from other major cities, but some find value in the quiet of a more secluded lifestyle.


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Unfortunately, Eureka, in Humboldt County, is in the center of a narco-state where marijuana is grown industrial-scale and drug use is rampant. The situation has gotten so bad that even tourists avoid it. Here's one telling review from TripAdvisor. It's a little long but well worth the read:

Just back from 5 days in Eureka CA. Had not been there for a few years so decided to visit north coast area, see some redwoods, great coastal scenery and victorian homes along the way. We were quite impressed that someone is trying to make Eureka a tourist destination (murals, town gazebo, festival, arts and a wonderful visitors center),. At the same time, we witnessed what appeared to be several dozen (at least!!) drunken and/or drugged human beings lying on curbs, in doorways, against fences, behind stores, camping out in parking lots, stumbling onto HWY 101 etc etc. Old motels (The Serenity for one) were overflowing with people outside at all hours of the day and night. A poor pit bull was chained to a fence next to highway all day Saturday w/ cops driving back and forth. Drug deals appeared to be taking place right out in the open within sight of traffic on 101. We stopped to take a picture of a cute mural downtown and a wild-eyed woman came screaming out of the shrubs-screaming at us for "taking her picture". She had something in her raised hand and we got out of there fast. This was across the street from the jail and near an area of lovely victorian homes on 3rd. Doesn't really matter where in town it was because it was all over. Mixed in with great businesses, lovely scenery, restaurants and historic places, we dodged crazies screaming at the top of their lungs. Panhandlers followed people around from store to store. We were in one cafe when a man sat down in filthy urine soaked clothes and reeking of alcohol. He wasn't ordering anything but just came to talk-however, most of the other customers had to get up and leave as the smell was so overpowering. And although we felt bad that these people have such problems...well...Eureka has a big problem too. A split-image.


Later, at [a bookrestore] in the Bayshore Mall, we found several prominent displays on growing and/or manufacturing drugs. Umm...from the looks of Eureka's streets, that information has already been put to use. I hope that this once lovely town can come to grips with this problem.

The above review is a few years old, but be assured that nothing has changed for the better in Eureka, as The New York Times reports:

California's North Coast is known for its natural beauty and magnificent redwoods, but Eureka, the Humboldt County seat, is increasingly known for something else: the prevalence of dirty needles littering parks and public areas, crude remains of a heroin scourge that is afflicting the region.


Drug use in Humboldt County has many layers. Meth has been a scourge in rural California for many years, and because it is often shot intravenously, the transition to heroin has been too easy for many. Eureka's large homeless population has been especially vulnerable to addiction in recent years.


Discarded syringes have become a significant concern for the town's residents, who worry that the needles pose a threat to children and tourists.

As for the cause of all this:

OK, so why do so many people here use drugs? Theories abound, with the most common explanations tending to involve the marijuana industry and its associated culture of permissiveness and experimentation. Michael Goldsby [an addiction studies instructor at College of the Redwoods since 1987] thinks that theory makes sense.


"Risk factors for drug problems include availability of drugs, positive peer attitudes towards drug use [and] community norms that accept drug misuse," he explained. "Drug and alcohol use is accepted and even encouraged in our community."

Legalized drug use has destroyed some of the most beautiful places in California and is now doing the same in Colorado and elsewhere, where "harmless" marijuana, the gateway to even worse narcotics, has been legalized. It's just a shame that immorality seems to go hand in hand with some of the prettiest places in America.



https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...alifornia.html

Beautiful California...every city and town is turning into one big DUMP!

Enjoy your "marijuana" tax...because it will cost BILLIONS to clean up this mess you fools!

Sadly, this is the future of America if those who favor legalizing drugs get their way!

No, this is confusing homelessness with weed legalization. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

They have everything to do with each other. Go on a road trip down I-5 from Washington State to the Border. Take your good old time along the way.

It is a disgusting cesspool.

Weed, drugs, alcohol, homeless, don't care, no money, panhandle, breed and broke...all goes hand in hand.

Live in the beautiful weather, sunshine, beach, mooch money.

I've seen it all.

Now let's open "safe zone shoot up" centers! LMAO

Open a center with a bed to sweat it out with a toilet to puke in and a shower. Nothing more, nothing less.

Weed was just legalized in California last year. Legal weed didn't have anything to do with the mess in this article. Homelessness, heroin and meth addiction, that is something else, caused by other problems, not marijuana and certainly not legal marijuana. People can't solve problems when they think or believe one thing is causing it when it didn't have anything to do with it. It's like people who mistakenly think illegal immigration is about better lives and cheap labor, when it's really about open borders for drug cartels.

The Opioid Crisis in Humboldt County
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Homeless people near a soup kitchen in Eureka in March. Eureka’s large homeless population has been especially vulnerable to addiction in recent years.CreditMax Whittaker for The New York Times

By Jose A. Del Real and Inyoung Kang
May 8, 2018

California’s North Coast is known for its natural beauty and magnificent redwoods, but Eureka, the Humboldt County seat, is increasingly known for something else: the prevalence of dirty needles littering parks and public areas, crude remains of a heroin scourge that is afflicting the region.

A sharp rise in heroin use has created intense fear among community members and public health officials in Humboldt County, even while California as a whole has one of the lowest overall opioid-related death rates in the country.

In Humboldt County, opioid-related overdose rates are five times higher than in the rest of the state.

Like rural areas around the country, the North Coast lacks sufficient treatment options to deal with opioid addiction.

Today, it is increasingly difficult to find community members in Eureka who have not been touched by a surge of heroin use in the region. People have either lost loved ones, watched neighbors shrink into their addictions or come across the wave of needle litter left behind on sidewalks and in parks.

Drug use in Humboldt County has many layers. Meth has been a scourge in rural California for many years, and because it is often shot intravenously, the transition to heroin has been too easy for many.

Eureka’s large homeless population has been especially vulnerable to addiction in recent years.


Discarded syringes have become a significant concern for the town’s residents, who worry that the needles pose a threat to children and tourists.

Those syringes are a symptom of a broader, systemic issue.
Steve Shockley, a Eureka resident who is homeless, said he “converted” to using heroin a few years ago after years of drug abuse.

Like many other longtime intravenous drug users in the area, he now prefers heroin to meth, though he uses them both regularly.

Stacy Cobine, who said she worked as a nurse’s aide for many years, says that many drug users are getting abscesses from syringes; she said she had taught younger drug users proper needle technique to avoid infections and other complications.

“You would not believe the dirty using practices I’ve seen,” she said. “I just cringe thinking about it. I’ve had to teach a couple of my girlfriends’ kids how to do it right, help them do it, because it just made me so sad.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/california-today-eureka-humboldt-heroin.html

That's where your needles come from, not marijuana. That's where the serious addiction comes from, not marijuana. And most of it started with a careless unnecessary doctor's prescription or pushed on you by a stupid untrained nurse in a hospital. You can't solve a problem when you refuse to track down the actual cause or when you find it refuse to face it.

Originally Posted by Judy

No, this is confusing homelessness with weed legalization. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

How can the homeless afford all those drugs?

Duplication!