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Monday April 21, 2025

A mayor in Southern California is facing a backlash after suggesting the city of Lancaster could address homelessness by providing vagrants with "all the fentanyl they want," according to the Los Angeles Times. The US has been grappling with a severe opioid crisis.

Originally developed for severe pain management, fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

Illicitly manufactured fentanyl has flooded the US drug market, and more than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 from drug mixtures containing the substance, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly double the total number of motor vehicle fatalities tallied that year and over three times the number of reported homicides.

Mayor Rex Parris of Lancaster, California sparked controversy during a February city council meeting after a resident criticized the city's plan to deal with homelessness by confining them to an abandoned golf course near a residential area, the outlet said on Sunday.

According to footage from the meeting, Parris interrupted the woman's remarks, saying, "what I want to do is give them free fentanyl."

"I mean, that's what I want to do. I want to give them all the fentanyl they want." The startled resident responded to the Republican mayor, saying his comment "was not kind."

Parris, who has served as mayor since 2008, told FOX LA on Friday that he has no "regrets" about his remarks. He clarified that he was referring specifically to unhoused individuals involved in criminal activity who "refuse" assistance, and reiterated his stance on providing them with the highly addictive and often deadly opioid.

"I made it very clear I was talking about the criminal element that were let out of the prisons that have now become 40 to 45% of what's referred to as the homeless population," Parris told the outlet.

"They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of our rapes, and at least half of our murders," he added, without providing any evidence or data to support his claims.

Parris went on to say he hadn't thought anyone would take his comments "literally," claiming that fentanyl is "so easy" to obtain on the streets that offering it for free wouldn't make any difference.

"Quite frankly, I wish that the president would give us a purge. Because we do need to purge these people," Parris concluded. In 2013, the Lancaster mayor made headlines for proposing building a Buddhist temple to attract Chinese investment. In 2018, he drew attention again with a push to ban neckties from workplace, citing studies linking them to reduced blood flow to the brain.

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