On a recent afternoon along a stretch of Beach Boulevard in Garden Grove, California, a man winced before slumping over at a bus stop as he tightly gripped a blowtorch he had used to heat fentanyl.
Another man next to him had already passed out after doing the drug in broad daylight just feet away from passing traffic.
“[T]he solution in Sacramento is not to go after drug dealers and put them in prison,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said last week at a town hall meeting on fentanyl in nearby Laguna Niguel, California. “[California’s] Legislature keeps doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting it do something different, but nothing changes.”…