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Venice Beach, California, was my lodgings for seven years. I worshiped every minute of being a local in this decorative, chaotic place. The melancholy, spectacle, and hell chemical drugs brought each day to the local users are authentic, scary, and rowdy. The rampant use of synthetic stimulants climbed each year with ferocious power. The age range of narcotic consumption has hooked lost street teenagers to old baby boomers. The alluring human-made poisons are not picky; they strike like an ...