content: Thing is though., Insite saves lives.  Ground zero down there you got a couple of ODs from the Fentanyl.. Daily..  365 days daily.  Vancouver's not that big a city, way smaller than San Fran or LA.  The downtown Eastside has been a dark dark place for a very long time, from the cannibalistic native tribes up the west coast of Vancouver Island coming in contact with western civ. , to the hangman's noose in blood alley, to the underground tunnels and the sub-city that still exists.  Insite's just doing triage... Just keeping folks alive.. Cause some of them make it out of there.   I was a socialist atheist till I lived there, then I saw what happens when you go too far left (west in this case).  The things I seen in those hotels I just can't reconcile with normal Godly living.  I don't even remember most of them.  Small blessings I suppose.  The veil between living and dead.. Contruction/destruction.. Order/chaos is really thin down there. Honestly, this comes from someone who snickered at hocus pocus religious talk most of my life.  Vancouver didn't cause this man, its been there. You're right about the cartels, those Hondurans are rough.. You'll see them in jail if you stay a while.  It's the chinks that are really bringing it in.. Obviously.