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Equally gripping and disturbing, a new video taken near a Seattle homeless encampment shows two men in their 20s 鈥� including one, a self-described college graduate 鈥� mixing a combination of illegal street drugs before smoking it out in the open as a police cruiser drives by.

The , captured by street journalist and senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center , features the men willingly describing how to mix several drugs before smoking it because 鈥渁s long as you鈥檙e high, everything is fine.鈥�

Shot near an encampment that has been swept several times — but keeps popping back up — on SoDo鈥檚 Third Avenue near South Holgate and Utah streets, the five-minute video is heartbreaking, The Dori Monson Show told Choe.

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鈥淭hey look so young,鈥� Dori said. One of the men 鈥渟ounds as if his brain is absolutely fried from the drugs.鈥�

鈥�100%,鈥� Choe agreed. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 what’s so sad. He told me he was an engineering major.鈥�

In the video, the men describe their recipe for cooking the mix before smoking it. After smoothing out a piece of crumpled foil, one adds a little blue fentanyl pill, a purer 鈥渇eti powder鈥� and 鈥渁 little meth in there鈥� before heating it to smoke it 鈥� right after doing 鈥渁 line of coke鈥� and taking Xanax with vodka.

After Choe asks the men if they鈥檙e worried about overdosing, one tells him, 鈥淣o. We鈥檝e got Narcan if we need it.鈥� The other man told Choe he takes drugs to 鈥渘umb the pain.鈥�

Scenes like this are playing out 鈥渆very single day at pretty much every single homeless encampment in this city,鈥� Choe told Dori. The men told Choe they choose to live in SoDo because that is where they can find drugs and 鈥渨here they would be left alone.鈥�

The street journalist told Dori鈥檚 listeners that it鈥檚 鈥渦nfathomable we鈥檙e allowing this to continue.鈥� When asked by Choe if they would like his help getting into a treatment clinic, 鈥渢he vast majority are saying ‘no. I鈥檓 good out here.’ 鈥�

鈥淲e need to offer them the option of treatment, mental health counseling 鈥� but one thing we cannot do is exactly what we are doing, which is allow them to slowly or sometimes quickly kill themselves out on the street,鈥� Dori argued. 鈥淲e cannot 鈥� as a society with a heart and soul 鈥� believe that this is the best way to deal with the problem.鈥�

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Meanwhile, Dori continued, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell asked for $14 million more to provide broader 鈥渙utreach鈥� to 403 encampment sites in the city in 2023. Nearly $33.1 million was budgeted for this team this year.

鈥淯ntil we make drugs illegal, nothing is going to solve the homelessness problem,鈥� Dori added. 鈥淲e can spend billions of dollars 鈥� but if everybody in the country knows you can come here, commit crimes every single day, and if you get caught, you won鈥檛 be punished and then you can buy drugs every single day 鈥� we can spend billions on housing, but it鈥檚 never going to get better.鈥�

It鈥檚 precisely what Choe says he鈥檚 鈥渟eeing every single day on the street and the video doesn鈥檛 lie.鈥�

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