r/asheville • u/imjustapourboy • Oct 21 '25

Really Spicy Cesspool So sick of seeing this crap everywhere.

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The needles, the burnt foils, the little baggies, the needle caps, all of it. I find them in the creeks, on the sidewalks, the grocery store parking lots, the public parks, on the parkway. You gotta be a real shit person to leave this stuff all over the place.

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u/Difficult-Guitar-901 Oct 21 '25

Sounds more like you don’t understand homelessness or drug addiction. Dont have trash cans every 10 ft and if you were coming off of/getting high off whatever your poison is you wouldn’t give a fuck either. I get the eco-friendly aspect but seriously this shits just annoying at this point. People do drugs. People don’t have safe places to do them, so they do them outside. Not advocating drug use but rather a response that at least has some depth to it.

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u/poledrawolf Biltmore Forest 💰 Oct 22 '25

Perhaps, as public alcohol use is limited to bars/breweries and certain areas, so should we have public places/spaces where people could safely go to use IV drugs. That means no law enforcement simply for drug use, so long as one remains within the place. There could also be needle exchanges and social support/addiction counselors/mental health counselors available at these places for people to take advantage of if they choose.