A town once deemed "most hippie" in Washington recently outlawed drug use after a spike in fentanyl overdoses that included the death of a 5-year-old girl.
Edwin Williams, a city council member in Bellingham, Washington, said overdoses became so commonplace in his city that one dead body was left on a bench for 12 hours.
"A man was sitting on the curb in a parking lot with his head bowed, right out in the open … and a police officer told me that he had been dead for at least 12 hours," Williams told the New York Post in a report on Bellingham published Sunday. "It shocked me to my core."
The Bellingham City Council voted in April to make open drug use an arrestable crime – a decision that came two years after the Washington legislature decriminalized hard drugs in response to a decision at the state's Supreme Court.
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