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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The Department of Justice has spent years in litigation with Safehouse. The Philly based nonprofit wants to run a ‘crackhouse’ where addicts can use drugs under ‘supervision’.
‘Safe injection sites’ have become popular with pro-crime policymakers but, like a lot of drug-based efforts, are illegal at a federal level. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 makes it a crime to “knowingly open, lease, rent, use, or maintain any place, whether permanently or temporarily, for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance” punishable by a fine of $2 million and as much as 20 years in prison.
“The issue is that people who are addicted to narcotics, that get to heroin, are no different than anyone with high blood pressure, or diabetes, or cancer,” Mayor Jim Kenney argued in defense of the crackhouse. “We don’t question the fact that people go for treatment for these diseases.”
The majority of Philly residents disagreed with the idea that shooting up heroin is like diabetics getting insulin and so did the City Council which recently passed a ban on ‘safe injection’ crackhouses by a vote of 13 to 1.
In its latest move in federal court, Safehouse is making the frivolous argument that operating a crackhouse is protected under Freedom of Religion. “There are many ways for Safehouse’s board members to exercise their broadly stated religious beliefs that do not involve maintaining a facility for individuals to consume drugs,” the Justice Department replied.
But while the federal litigation continues, Safehouse continues to take in donations as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Justice Department may have a problem with Safehouse running a crackhouse, but the IRS does not object to a nonprofit crackhouse. Even though it’s illegal.
Tax code regulations state that “exempt purposes may generally be equated with the public good, and violations of law are the antithesis of the public good”. They warn that the, “violation of constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with exemption under IRC 501(c)(3)” and that “planned activities that violate laws are not in furtherance of a charitable purpose”.”
Either the IRS believes that ‘shooting up’ equates with the public good or that the ‘Crackhouse Statute’ is not a constitutionally valid law. Either that or it decided to just ignore the law.
Safehouse first received its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2019. Treating Safehouse as a 501(c)(3) not only provided a lucrative source of donations, but was used by the organization to argue that its activities had been approved of by a branch of the federal government.
“I think it is important for the court to know that a federal agency has looked at this activity and determined that it’s lawful,” Ronda Goldfein, Safehouse’s vice president, had argued.
Safehouse has taken in over half a million dollars since the IRS provided it with tax-exempt status. Some of that money appears to have been used to fund its battles against the federal government. By providing Safehouse with nonprofit status, the IRS was effectively funding litigation by the proposed drug den against the Justice Department’s efforts to enforce the law.
Who at the IRS decided to sign off on a crackhouse and its lawfare operation?
And Safehouse is not the only IRS approved ‘crackhouse’.
OnPoint NYC, which operates two “supervised injection sites” where addicts stop by to shoot up some heroin and then watch some television, is also a 501(c)(3). Users can get brand new shiny new needles and hot towels that “really bring those veins up.”
According to the IRS, maintaining a “smoking room” and hot towels that bring up veins is also a tax-exempt public good.
OnPoint NYC took in $2.6 million in 2021 and $3.8 million in 2020. While the media and politicians have hailed the operation, local residents don’t want crackhouses in their communities. They were so unpopular that Al Sharpton took part in a protest against them.
Even Damian Williams, a Biden appointee and the first black US Attorney of the Southern District of New York, made it very clear that OnPoint’s operations are illegal.
“That is unacceptable,” he warned. “My office is prepared to exercise all options — including enforcement — if this situation does not change in short order.”
The IRS however has chosen to continue treating OnPoint as legal in defiance of the law.
In Rhode Island, Project Weber/RENEW is planning to open a government approved drug den where junkies can “use pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of trained staff”.
Project Weber/Renew is a 501(c)(3) which has taken in $1.68 million in 2021. And it’s the third example of the IRS allowing drug dens to operate as nonprofits even while violating federal law.
By providing crackhouses with nonprofit status, the IRS is encouraging the trend of injection sites, allowing these organizations to finance their operations and litigation using taxpayer money, and creating the appearance, as it did with Safehouse in Philly, that the federal government approves of them.
Nonprofit crackhouses are far from the only example of illegal and criminal activities being engaged in by nonprofits with the complicity of the IRS. The Freedom Center’s Internal Radical Service project has turned up plenty of examples from Antifa’s nonprofit infrastructure to Islamic terrorist groups, but the IRS crackhouses are unique because one arm of the federal government is fighting them even while another arm of the government is licensing them.
By providing nonprofit status to crackhouses, the IRS has effectively sidelined the Department of Justice and offered a private finding that they ought to be able to operate legally. That is not an authority that the IRS holds and it has refused to make its internal determinations public.
The IRS has often been accused of acting as a law unto itself, but when it comes to nonprofit crackhouses, it is literally doing so, deciding which laws to enforce and which to set aside.
Congress did not allocate such a power to the IRS. It is not up to the IRS to decide that the ‘Crackhouse Statute’ does not apply. Nor should the IRS be providing nonprofit status to organizations like Safehouse to fund litigation against the government.
America has a drug epidemic. And it also has a bureaucracy epidemic. Much like drug use on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City, the administrative state is out of control.
While parts of the government are waging a war on drugs, the IRS is waging a war for drugs.
The IRS decision to go rogue on crackhouses makes it a threat to the republic and the rule of law. The streets of Philadelphia need to be cleaned up, but so do the offices of the IRS.
Mark Dunn says
A smoking room in government sanctioned crack house, it would be fun to go there, light up a cigar, and watch the staff have a fit. You can’t smoke, that thing, indoors there is a city ordnance.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, around here under city ordnance you can’t smoke tobacco, but you can smoke pot. But under federal law you can’t smoke pot. So to be safe organizations ban all types of smoking.
Jeff Bargholz says
This country sure is messed up.
I didn’t even know some people shoot up crack. I thought they just smoked it.
My ex girlfriend’s sister smokes that stuff. I wonder if my ex girlfriend ever smoked it? I hope not. She says it causes euphoria but it doesn’t last long. I wonder how she knows that? Hopefully she just asked her sister. She can tell when her sis is high on that stuff, too. I can’t. I don’t know her well enough I did go to her apartment the other week, though. Good thing I have condoms. I don’t think she was high and she said she wasn’t.
Smoking pot is no big deal but smoking crack is crazy, in my opinion. And I couldn’t imagine shooting ANYTHING up. And the sister is 62 years old. Way too old to be smoking crack. She’s going to end up killing herself.
Jeff Bargholz says
Where down voted me smokes butt crack.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Jeff! I learned something new today. Apparently Cannabis wasn’t native to West Africa, but eventually spread there from India westwards. But the Cannabis in West Africa (including Cameroons which was part of the area Burton visited) was the strongest. He didn’t say why, maybe a favorable climate.
Jeff Bargholz says
The Cameroonian soil is volcanic, like Indonesia’s.
You can grow anything in dirt like that.
And did I mention that Cameroonian chicks are smoking hot? Even there fat ones. They do it as hard as Thai chicks.
Jeff Bargholz says
I bought some pumpkin pie ice cream yesterday! Your sentimental and charming ode to your mother made me do it. I’ll eat some of it later today. 🙂
Mo de Profit says
Cannabis induced psychosis is a growing problem, and it is real despite what the sellers want you to believe. And, more importantly, cannabis is the first step towards stronger drugs for every single addict.
TRex says
You often hear proponents saying it is not a “gateway” drug. BS! I know from experience, where you find pot the hard stuff isn’t far off. Fortunately, many of the people I knew stuck with weed or gave up drugs altogether. Several moved on to heroin, coke and meth to find themselves addicted and living a sad and chaotic life. Some of them died from an overdose. In my experience, it all started with smoking weed.
Jeff Bargholz says
Bullshit. I used to smoke pot with my ex girlfriend and I’m not addicted to crack or heroin.
Only weaklings succumb to that shit.
mtman2 says
Oh the irony of Oxymoronic mentally ill stewards of the Asylum…!
mj says
Well, let’s add this form of enabling and promoting drug addiction to the fentanyl death invasion and to the all encompassing list of how to bring about the decay and downfall of America, one citizen, one addict, one child, at a time.
If the IRS has the upper hand here, in spite of the law, then we can conclude that the Dept. of Justice does not really exist.
It’s an illusion, like Biden’s presidency.
…….But this seems to be the plan.
Why else would one department of the executive branch override another department of the executive branch? They’re just following orders. Consolidating for the new order.
And beefing up the IRS with 87,000 armed agents -Where are we going with that?
Drug addiction is self destruction, not medical treatment. Mayor Kenney is evidently one of the ever increasing human props programmed to “enforce” only this plan, not the law on the books, so to speak.
US Attorney Williams says enforcement is, an option?
So there are options other than enforcing the law? Isn’t enforcing the law his job?
Another programmed human prop.
Just for show. An illusion of justice.
Just like the absurd superficiality that defines the concocted divisive issues of race, transgenderism and DEI.
Remember the sci fi film The Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
They looked like humans.
Cindy says
Well said. The soft coup has many tentacles. Eugenics is a soft democide disguised as therapy and compassion.
Jesus said Lawlessness would abound in the end times. We are here.
Semaphore says
Again, follow the money. I did a mental exercise a few years back when I found out that of the (then) 8000 homeless in San Francisco, 80% were addicts, the most common drug being heroin. Then, a gram of street-grade heroin sold for $20, and the typical addict used a gram in two days. If 6400 addicts were on heroin and spent $10 a day for it, then $64K changed hands daily. That makes $23.36M annually. $23M buys lots of police protection and political influence. This was only a brain f@rt, but I don’t think it was too far off. It explains alot about what has happened to San Francisco since, and it may also explain the irrational IRS disregard for current law.
Chief says
Look up the Kensington Avenue Zombies. These people need help, not more drugs!
Daniel Greenfield says
Just legalize it all. What could go wrong?
Mike says
Funny how this video you show is happening during drug prohibition!
Come on Mr Greenfield, I read tons of your articles and I know you are smarter than that!
Jeff Bargholz says
That’s horrific.they do look like zombies. Not the flesh eating type, the voodoo type. Where do people like that even get money for fentanyl? Probably steal stuff and trade it to dealers.
Anybody who sells that poison should be horse whipped.
Jeff Bargholz says
Holy crap! How’d you like to have to park your car on that Street? No thanks.
Kynarion Hellenis says
It is hard to miss the religious core of our destroyers. It perfectly mirrors the horror, the chaos, the lovelessness, the death and destruction common to those who have forgotten God.
mtman2 says
“Where are WE going with 87,000 armed IRS Agents” [40hr 9 to 5er’s]:
Where are they going with 150million armed Americans is the question in the longer view
J.J. Sefton says
Think of all those all those 501-c3’s Lois Lerner would’ve green-lit if only the Tea Party called itself the Opium Den.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, very similar to the Opium Dens of Asia.
mtman2 says
A valid point many of us realized was the 1st mistake dealing with the unConstitutional arm of both the owned Political Party’s & unelected DC DeepState owned by the Central Bankster cabal(nwo-Globalist’s) who’s only true purpose in 111yrs was to incrementally take down America, Americanism and ultimately ~
“WE the( real)American People”
“Still clinging to their Bibles+guns”
Algorithmic Analyst says
My fantasy is that they give them an overdose of fentanyl, so they can have a pleasant trip to the other side.
There was a certain person who OD’d on heroin or something, and another guy saved his life. But the guy who OD’d was angry at him for spoiling his trip.
So presumably it is a pleasant way to go?
In contrast to euthanasia, where they give you some drug to paralyze you, but not kill you, so you can be laying there for hours in excruciating pain and unable to move.
Mike says
Legalize it all! End mass incarcerations, free police resources, and lets finally become the “Land of the free” that we claim to be!
Mo de Profit says
And damage even more innocent children in the process.
Mike says
And you think this failed insane and immoral drug war is a better option? Besides, it would certainly be illegal for children to sell or take any drugs just like they can’t buy alcohol or smokes. Many children still get their hands on drugs anyways now that drugs are illegal.
Just what do you hope to accomplish with the current war on drugs?
Mom2My2 says
The problem with legalizing drugs is that then the legal system’s hands are tied in removing parental rights from drug-abusing parents. This has serious consequences for children–as observed in Colorado–where children of parents addicted to smoking marijuana can be exposed to marijuana smoke in the home, causing repeated cycles of secondary smoker high and misery coming off the high/detoxing, with no consequences at all to the parent inflicting this on them. Responsible parents attempting to get courts to intervene to protect their kids are instead scolded and treated fairly harshly by the family court system.
Legalizing drugs means no consequences for or to the adults using those drugs around children. This is not acceptable. Our children deserve better. ALL of our children.
Jeff Bargholz says
Mom2My2,
even instates were pot is legal, no parent should toke that stuff in front of their kids, especially young kids.
Marijuana isn’t addictive, though. It can be habit forming like just about anything else but not addictive.
Linda says
Save approx 100,000. human lives. (Last year alone)
NYgal says
It’s practically legalized already in California and you can see the results on San Francisco streets.
Mike says
That is decriminalization, not full legalization. Big difference. The drugs are still manufactured illegally and come laced with all sorts of dangerous ingredients.
Recreational drugs need to be legalized fully at the federal level. Then ea h state can make their own policies as the constitution intended.
Mark Dunn says
Maybe you should move to a blue state where people are free to shit on the sidewalk.
Mark Dunn says
Maybe you should move to a blue state where people are free to shit on the streets?
Mike says
What a sophisticated response!
These things happen under drug prohibition. Legalize all drugs at the federal level.
Samuel Pope says
That’s a novel approach, and one that would nicely eliminate bloated government spending on rehabilitation programs. But then again, why even worry about the fentanyl crisis in the first place if the only people who die of drug overdoses are people who apparently deserve it?
You’re a numbers guy, so when it comes to government-backed liquidation of undesirable sectors of the population, Zyklon B might actually be more pragmatic than fentanyl-injections in terms of overall efficiency. It has a proven résumé of effectiveness, and in dense, urban areas like Philly, mobile vans equipped with Zyklon B gas could simply pick up passengers and transport them straight to cremation centers during the actual euthanasia action.
Rose says
What a bunch of fools.
roberta says
This is one of the ”now Ive heard everything” type of articles.
WTF could be next?
NYgal says
What comes next? Assisted suicide.
Daniel Greenfield says
You name it, I’ll probably find it.
Mike says
Mr Greenfield. I am very dissapointed in you and my fellow conservatives. No one even suggests the concept of full legalization, the only way to actually win the drug war.
We conservatives are all about freedom. Live and let live. But somehow when it comes to drugs, we decide its ok to try and run peoples lives.
And I mean full legalization, not so called decriminalization. With decriminalization we would still have distribution of illegally made drugs laced with god knows what causing more OD’s.
Just what do you think we will accomplish with the drug war? Do my fellow conservatives really think we will achieve this pristine drug free utopia? Of course not! It will just be an endless cycle of ruined lives with prison, gang shootings, violence, more life ruining prison sentences, and more OD”s due to laced drugs.
Time to end this insane drug war, certainly at the federal level.
The only way to win the drug war is to brutally crack down like Mao did. Mass incarcerations and mass executions. Then we become just as bad as these evil authoritarian regimes.
So live and let live. We aren’t God to go around telling people what they can or can’t take into their own bodies.
Semaphore says
Dream on. Drugs will never be legalized because too many people make too much money from the traffic.
Mike says
Well, some western free countries are on their way to legalization, or at least full decriminalization. So there is some hope!
Jeff Bargholz says
I personally don’t want to see zombies on my streets. If all that garbage were to be legalized there should be laws forcing people to make it at home only.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, public behavior vs private behavior. Like, drinking alcohol in public is illegal in this county, but commonly drunk in private homes, and in restaurants and such that have a liquor license.
Daniel Greenfield says
Live and let live doesn’t work when you’ve legalized China pumping fentanyl into American cities and there are hordes of violent zombies wandering the streets who might attack you randomly or for cash.
And your kids can turn into one of them.
Mike says
If drugs were legal, they could be manufactured professionally so people knew what they were intaking, thus dramatically reducing OD deaths.
And they would be much cheaper (provided big gov didn’t tax the life out of them) so addicts wouldn’t have to steal to get their drugs, kind of like how legalized alcohol works.
I bet if you were around one hundred years ago you’d be for alcohol prohibition.
Every argument for drug prohibition has holes in it big enough to drive a truck through!
Snuffy Carter says
earth to Mike:
what an idiot – the Chinese counterfeit everything – if cocaine became legal and was sold with an “FDA approved label” on it, the Chinese would copy the label, put their cocaine into the bottle, then add some fentanyl (because they want us dead, like with the covid virus they created) and then sell their counterfeit product on the market for a lower price than the legal stuff. Legalization thus solves nothing with respect to producing a product with known ingredients.
remember back to the 70’s when LSD was the drug of the day. LSD is fat soluble, meaning its residue stays inside your body after taking it. Some people thus had LSD flashbacks when the residue in their body was released back into their blood stream – days, weeks, months, or maybe years later. So, if LSD had been made legal back then and your bus driver, for example, was a user, the driver could have a flashback at any time and end up driving the bus off of a cliff. What kind of an idiot wants to repeat that history today – that’s one big reason why street drugs are illegal – to protect citizens from users of deadly substances.
Mike says
My kids can also turn into alcoholics and wreck their family and even kill innocent people while driving.
Do you suggest we ban alcohol as well so we can maybe achieve this utopian substance free pristine environment you envision?
Ad far as my kids go, I try to raise them right and influence them so they can hopefully make good decisions throughout their life.
Jeff Bargholz says
Good points. Drug addicts are unpredictable and most of them are thieves.
The zombies look too out of it to be much of a threat – when they’re high – but who knows when they’re sober and desperate for some more fentanyl?
And tweakers are the worst. They’re unbearable when they’re tweaking and even worse when they’re sober and jonesing for a hit. They steal everything in sight. I hate therm. They stay up all damned night making noise in the hallways in my building. There aren’t many of them but even one is a pain in the ass. The assholes break into the laundry room directly across from my apt at 2; and 3; in the morning and wake me up. It’s official hours are 8:am to 10: pm. Fourteen hours is plenty of time to do laundry. It seems like all their nasty clothes have metal buttons that ping away in the dryer. It’s loud enough to jolt me out of sleep. they use the trash can in the room to prop the door open.
I lost it last week and threw the trash can out the nearby wind view. I live on the fifth floor so the can was ruined. Building management didn’t like that. They came to my door and gave me a lease violation notice. I crumpled it up and threw it on the ground. I shouldn’t have flipped out and hurled the trash can but if management can review hours of video to see me, they can review it to catch the tweakers and vandals, which is what I told them. And there are at least two drug dealers in this building and management knows who they are.
Sorry to vent but I hate druggies. I hope there aren’t any in your neighborhood. Just one can harm the whole neighborhood.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Careful with the lease violations. Then they can evict you if they don’t like you.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, good advice. There are plenty of scumbags living here who deserve to get evicted but if the powers that be get a hard-on for me, they can evict me. I have to be careful and restrain myself. I’m not a bad guy, I just have a temper.
Mike says
Now I may have missed something, but last I checked , It wasn’t “legal” for China to distribute fentanyl in the US!
Isn’t pumping Chinese fentanyl in the US made lucrative because of our insane drug prohibition?
THX 1138 says
Conservatism is NOT all about freedom. Conservatism is an umbrella term and an umbrella movement with all kinds of contradictory factions and contradictory ideas. That’s why conservatism has always been a futile movement for defending freedom, liberty, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism.
If you want a consistent, rational, objective, non-contradictory, defense of freedom, liberty, and Capitalism you’ll have to turn to Objectivism — not conservatism and not Libertarianism.
Neither the conservatives nor the Libertarians can defend freedom.
“Conservatism vs. Objectivism” by Ayn Rand
Mike says
I cant really make sense of what you’re saying, but modern western conservativism is based on the libertarian ideals of limited government, individual rights , and free markets.
Intrepid says
Please God, Not another homework assignment that no one will watch. Please stop trying to save us, Mr. Messiah.
No one is going to turn to Objectivism. If the country were turning in your direction where are the plethora of Objective presidential candidates? Where is the Objectivist political party?
Rand passed on some 50 years ago. No one cares anymore. Not many did when she was alive.
Unfortunately for you we are a country of two major political parties….we have been that way for some 150 years. Got news for ya. It ain’t changing anytime soon.
Mike says
Isn’t this the land of the free? Legalize it all! Stop trying to run peoples lives. We will not ever achieve this pristine drug free utopia my fellow conservatives seem to dream of!
Daniel Greenfield says
We won’t ever achieve a murder-free or robbery-free or public-urination-free utopia either.
However if you abandon standards completely, you end up living in hell. Or San Fran which is close enough.
Mike says
Unlike murder, drug use is a consensual crime. Western nations that legalize or decriminalization hard drug use have only seen about a %25 max increase in usage.
Very small price to pay to rid society of all the carnage , imprisonment, and gang violence this moronic war on drugs causes.
Jeff Bargholz says
I think Philly is even worse than San Fran. It has a lot more murders, that’s for sure. At least San Fran has David DePape swinging away against the Pelosi crime family.
Or did have him. He’s probably in an insane asylum by now eating his cuckoo for cocoa puffs..
Algorithmic Analyst says
I think he’s being held in jail without bail until trial.
Funny how MSM is spinning the story. The simplest scenario is gay sex and he freaked out when the police showed up and cracked Paul over the head. But MSM is making it something political against Nancy.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, DePape and Paul were gay lovers. Or whatever.
Kasandra says
I’m sure the rot in the IRS goes higher but Congress should haul its Exempt Organizations department’s leadership up to the Hill and grill them on how giving tax exempt status to drug dens is consistent with furthering the public good and why non-exempt taxpayers should have to pay more taxes to make up for the taxes not being paid by these organizations who are engaging in illegal conduct.
Daniel Greenfield says
Yes. And why the IRS functions as a law unto itself rather than following legal guidance.
Jeff Bargholz says
Good points. I don’t like my tax dollars going to drug dens. Crack houses. I agree that supervised drug abuse is less horrid than Street zombies but not by much.
Bruce Burleson says
While perhaps not ideal, safe injection sites can be useful in offering services to addicts out on the streets because often we don’t know where these folks are. They’re usually in the wind. When they show up somewhere, we can help them.
Snuffy Carter says
Bruce-
they will show up at 2am inside your house looking for something to steal so they can buy their next fix. leave your cash by the front door if you want to help them.
Chief says
“The issue is that people who are addicted to narcotics, that get to heroin, are no different than anyone with high blood pressure, or diabetes, or cancer,” Mayor Jim Kenney argued in defense of the crackhouse. “We don’t question the fact that people go for treatment for these diseases.”
A few questions for Mayor Kenney: Would you treat high blood pressure with salt? Diabetes with candy? Cancer with tobacco?
Daniel Greenfield says
The only diseases they treat with more of the same are social diseases.
Jeff Bargholz says
And Limehouse in old London.
Jeff Bargholz says
I saw a derelict do that in Frisco on TV. He didn’t even wipe.
THX 1138 says
Do you mean defecation? Defecation in public was a common, routine, thing in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. The streets of Paris were covered with poop.
And before germ theory became widely known and accepted people would even pick up poop from the streets with their hands and throw it at each other.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, I mean defecation. It was disgusting. He just yanked down his pants, leaned over there curb and shat in the gutter, then pulled his pants up without wiping. Other guys were crapping right on the sidewalk!
Crapping all over Europe. Now I know why I’m glad to be American. At least if we don’t have access to toilets, we go in the woods or lakes.
Intrepid says
I don’t think the world needs a lesson in cleanliness from the likes of you. You seem to revel in defecation…..verbal defecation.
Algorithmic Analyst says
lol … that was one of the Berkeley psychology types favorite lines back in the 1970s, accusing people who talked too much of having verbal diarrhea 🙂
Jeff Bargholz says
that’s a mean comment.
Jeff Bargholz says
What’s your problem?
Ernest says
Fence them in and have the DEA give them all the drugs they want. This is a self-correcting problem.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, except that only one dose of Chinese fentanyl can kill your kids if they make the poor choice to use some.
Capitalist-Dad says
Stores authorized under state legalized marijuana laws are taxed by the Feds based on gross revenue—no deductions allowed because the business is illegal under federal law. Meanwhile, these centers specifically designed for shooting up heroin, smoking crack or meth, and whatever are not subjected to the same treatment. Doesn’t make sense until we just realize the Feds enforce or don’t enforce laws at the whim of the crooked political class. This lawlessness will continue until the people push back forcefully.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Dope is for Dopes
CharlieSeattle says
What will happen when millions of fentanyl pills, ground to a fine power, are sprayed upwind just before rush hour in dozens of large cities?
Will ‘ByteMe’ Biden consider going after the cartels and communist china?
Naw, mission accomplished!