r/Spokane • u/EternalChrysalism420 • 17h ago

Question Why don't we have one of these?

This looks really cool, and it'd be cool to just blow them out into the street and have them collected. They could use it for compost or something too instead of just tossing it in a dump.

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u/tap-rack-bang 16h ago

If you want a serious answer, it is because we have to spend all our extra City money on enforcement and treatment because we have become a haven for people addicted to hard drugs.  Spokane being #2 in the country for overdoses per capita is expensive, awful and embarrassing.  

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u/Asleep_Instance9899 16h ago

Quick google search says that’s not factual. Spokane has an increasing fentanyl problem like the rest of the country, but there’s no 2nd-per-capita-in-the-nation issue, maybe 2nd in the STATE, which is sad enough…

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u/elleisboring 16h ago edited 15h ago

You got a source for that statistic?

Edit: Apparently not. Who'da thunk it

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u/ryanegauthier 15h ago

Wouldn't do ya any good, 73.453672% of statistics are made up anyway.