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What’s Fueling the Bay Area’s Street Addiction Crisis?

Leighton Woodhouse discusses open-air drug markets and booming retail theft industry.
What’s Fueling the Bay Area’s Street Addiction Crisis?
Leighton Woodhouse, a freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Public, in Oakland, California on Oct. 31, 2023. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times
Jeff Minick
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In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek talks with Leighton Woodhouse, an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and native of Berkeley, California. Mr. Woodhouse has been documenting the “street addiction crisis” engulfing the Bay Area and the political culture and policies fueling it. He is also the co-founder of the “Public” publication on Substack with Michael Shellenberger and a key investigator of the Twitter Files.
Jan Jekielek: The ideology emanating from Berkeley and from San Francisco is that all drugs should be legal.
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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