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Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds
(www.latimes.com)
Now study Wall Street.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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“There was drugs in every sewage including the toilet we just tested. There was more drugs than the police evidence locker.”
Due to budget cuts, "Get into Magic so you won't have money for drugs." has now become "Don't worry about it, you won't have money for drugs anyways. Or for housing, for that matter."
Do you know how much drugs cost!?
In this economy?
"25% said they had never used drugs."
Something, something, self reported survey.
A ton of people who are unhoused work regular jobs by day and sleep in their car by night. 25% is completely plausible to me. You act as though they're all degenerates.
I wonder if anyone has told researchers that people can lie. You linked research about the topic, and people study these things in school before doing it professionally, but they're not smart like us so they must not have thought about this while conducting their survey.
Less "not thought about it while conducting the survey" and more "reporters not thinking about it when reporting the results of the survey."
My wife’s favorite aunt lives in San Jose and if I had to pay for a house out there, I’d go crazy and do drugs too
Zoning so progressive it makes existing asset holders progressively richer.
But you need to be afraid of Libertarianism. Those guys don't care about the poor.