Zombified, drug-addicted teens in Wheaton startle community

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is sad. Where are their parents??

These are like strays!! Parents had sex but did not want children.

Or they’re at work?

[Anonymous]

Is this just in MoCo? It doesn't cross county or state lines?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-leaders-host-listening-session-to-address-youth-crisis/3382965/

Members of one Montgomery County community came together Tuesday for candid conversation, as local leaders say drugs and violence are causing a youth crisis.

The Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee hosted a listening session to hear from the folks on the front lines of that crisis.

“I want them to take away the urgency of this situation. It is extremely urgent,” business owner Dave Jarrett said.

Jarrett‘s restaurant and lounge, Crossroads Two, has been open less than a year in Wheaton. But over the last six months, the small business owner said he’s witnessed a frightening trend on Fern Street.

“[They’re] spaced out, walking the streets like zombies,” he said. “I am seeing it. I stand there and watch the kids, zoned out, they come in and say, ‘Can I have water?’ and they are practically standing and sleeping. Just imagine what I’m telling you.”

Many members of the community have similar stories of young people out on the street, under the influence with nowhere to go.

Montgomery County officials said rates for youth public intoxication, overdoses and violent crime are up across the DMV.

Unbelievable. So so sad. And what is Maryland’s reaction? Make pot legal, of course

FFS. They’re not on weed - it’s likely fentanyl.

You are such an idiot. It’s not called a gateway drug for no reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this just in MoCo? It doesn't cross county or state lines?

It’s only where the elected leaders are democrats didn’t you know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-leaders-host-listening-session-to-address-youth-crisis/3382965/

Members of one Montgomery County community came together Tuesday for candid conversation, as local leaders say drugs and violence are causing a youth crisis.

The Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee hosted a listening session to hear from the folks on the front lines of that crisis.

“I want them to take away the urgency of this situation. It is extremely urgent,” business owner Dave Jarrett said.

Jarrett‘s restaurant and lounge, Crossroads Two, has been open less than a year in Wheaton. But over the last six months, the small business owner said he’s witnessed a frightening trend on Fern Street.

“[They’re] spaced out, walking the streets like zombies,” he said. “I am seeing it. I stand there and watch the kids, zoned out, they come in and say, ‘Can I have water?’ and they are practically standing and sleeping. Just imagine what I’m telling you.”

Many members of the community have similar stories of young people out on the street, under the influence with nowhere to go.

Montgomery County officials said rates for youth public intoxication, overdoses and violent crime are up across the DMV.

Unbelievable. So so sad. And what is Maryland’s reaction? Make pot legal, of course

FFS. They’re not on weed - it’s likely fentanyl.

You are such an idiot. It’s not called a gateway drug for no reason.

Everyone knows alcohol is the actual gateway drug. You regurgitate garbage propaganda. I betcha you’re one of the drunks hanging around the liquor stores.

Or maybe you’re a fenty lover? Defender of fake pills? Hmmm.

You pill poppers and alkies are surrounded by legal cannabis in all jurisdictions. Seethe away… I can hear your death rattle

[Anonymous]

We could fix this by legalizing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's sad. What drug are they on?

Sounds like my experience when I worked in Baltimore City in the 90s. The heroin capital of the nation. So it doesn't surprise me that fentanyl is involved.

[Anonymous]

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FBI Director Christopher Wray just testified today to the House Judiciary Committee that the number 1 concern of the FBI is drugs, specifically fentanyl in pills.

So this is not a MoCo problem, and fentanyl has nothing to do with weed (although personally I am against freely-available weed).

The precursor ingredients for fentanyl are made in several countries, particularly China, and smuggled at various points of entry, particularly the southern border.

It's a national and geostrategic problem. Remember when the UK pushed opiates in China? Well now this is revenge, isn't it? Tool of war, basically.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-leaders-host-listening-session-to-address-youth-crisis/3382965/

Members of one Montgomery County community came together Tuesday for candid conversation, as local leaders say drugs and violence are causing a youth crisis.

The Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee hosted a listening session to hear from the folks on the front lines of that crisis.

“I want them to take away the urgency of this situation. It is extremely urgent,” business owner Dave Jarrett said.

Jarrett‘s restaurant and lounge, Crossroads Two, has been open less than a year in Wheaton. But over the last six months, the small business owner said he’s witnessed a frightening trend on Fern Street.

“[They’re] spaced out, walking the streets like zombies,” he said. “I am seeing it. I stand there and watch the kids, zoned out, they come in and say, ‘Can I have water?’ and they are practically standing and sleeping. Just imagine what I’m telling you.”

Many members of the community have similar stories of young people out on the street, under the influence with nowhere to go.

Montgomery County officials said rates for youth public intoxication, overdoses and violent crime are up across the DMV.

Unbelievable. So so sad. And what is Maryland’s reaction? Make pot legal, of course

FFS. They’re not on weed - it’s likely fentanyl.

You are such an idiot. It’s not called a gateway drug for no reason.

Everyone knows alcohol is the actual gateway drug. You regurgitate garbage propaganda. I betcha you’re one of the drunks hanging around the liquor stores.

Or maybe you’re a fenty lover? Defender of fake pills? Hmmm.

You pill poppers and alkies are surrounded by legal cannabis in all jurisdictions. Seethe away… I can hear your death rattle

Alcohol is NOT the gateway drug to illegal substances in the way that pot is, not by a long shot when consumed by minors. It’s bad- don’t get me wrong- and may be a precursor to pot. But if kids stop at the alcohol stage and do not progress to pot, they are far far less likely to abuse pills and other potentially deadly drugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is sad. Where are their parents??

These are like strays!! Parents had sex but did not want children.

Or they’re at work?

They are on welfare. The parents are not married. No way these children are living in a functional and intact family.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t been through there recently but years ago there was an actual methadone clinic across the street from the IHOP, so maybe that is the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cannabis is legal - its hilarious seeing you all cry about it

I personally know a wonderful 19 year old whose life and family have been entirely, heartbreakingly derailed by thc induced psychosis-i assure you, it’s not hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is sad. Where are their parents??

These are like strays!! Parents had sex but did not want children.

Or they’re at work?

They are on welfare. The parents are not married. No way these children are living in a functional and intact family.

Are you posting from 1995?

[Anonymous]

It's frustrating to me how little of the conversation focuses on why kids wind up doing these drugs and what we could be doing as a society to make it less appeal.

You don't do fentanyl just because you're bored. These are kids who are stressed out, hopeless, probably depressed. Agree with a PP that these are obviously not kids from functional homes because parents would intervene and stop this from happening. So what could we be doing in schools an din public outreach to help these kids?

But people don't want to help them. They just want them to go away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:SOURCE: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-leaders-host-listening-session-to-address-youth-crisis/3382965/

Members of one Montgomery County community came together Tuesday for candid conversation, as local leaders say drugs and violence are causing a youth crisis.

The Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee hosted a listening session to hear from the folks on the front lines of that crisis.

“I want them to take away the urgency of this situation. It is extremely urgent,” business owner Dave Jarrett said.

Jarrett‘s restaurant and lounge, Crossroads Two, has been open less than a year in Wheaton. But over the last six months, the small business owner said he’s witnessed a frightening trend on Fern Street.

“[They’re] spaced out, walking the streets like zombies,” he said. “I am seeing it. I stand there and watch the kids, zoned out, they come in and say, ‘Can I have water?’ and they are practically standing and sleeping. Just imagine what I’m telling you.”

Many members of the community have similar stories of young people out on the street, under the influence with nowhere to go.

Montgomery County officials said rates for youth public intoxication, overdoses and violent crime are up across the DMV.

Unbelievable. So so sad. And what is Maryland’s reaction? Make pot legal, of course

FFS. They’re not on weed - it’s likely fentanyl.

You are such an idiot. It’s not called a gateway drug for no reason.

Everyone knows alcohol is the actual gateway drug. You regurgitate garbage propaganda. I betcha you’re one of the drunks hanging around the liquor stores.

Or maybe you’re a fenty lover? Defender of fake pills? Hmmm.

You pill poppers and alkies are surrounded by legal cannabis in all jurisdictions. Seethe away… I can hear your death rattle

Alcohol is NOT the gateway drug to illegal substances in the way that pot is, not by a long shot when consumed by minors. It’s bad- don’t get me wrong- and may be a precursor to pot. But if kids stop at the alcohol stage and do not progress to pot, they are far far less likely to abuse pills and other potentially deadly drugs.

In my experience the people most likely to use pills were drawn to alcohol and “legal” intoxicants because they believed the drug war propaganda that cannabis was bad. The “square” kids always liked xanax and pills more than weed.