Ben Owen

Because if you look at the way we've fought the war on drugs for the last 40 years— It's an abject failure by every metric measurable. We've made no progress. In fact, it's worse. Overdose deaths are higher than they've ever been. Now, I know, and you know, that's in large part because of fentanyl and the issues at the southern border with it just coming right across.

But the status quo has to be challenged. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on drugs. We've tried it for 40 years. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on human trafficking. It's not working. I'm not saying we stop prosecution. I'm not saying anything in favor of decriminalization or anything like that.

But the status quo has to be challenged. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on drugs. We've tried it for 40 years. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on human trafficking. It's not working. I'm not saying we stop prosecution. I'm not saying anything in favor of decriminalization or anything like that.

But the status quo has to be challenged. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on drugs. We've tried it for 40 years. We're not prosecuting our way out of the war on human trafficking. It's not working. I'm not saying we stop prosecution. I'm not saying anything in favor of decriminalization or anything like that.

What I am saying is we need partnerships like the one I just described where we do work with courts. We do work with law enforcement. But we also work with the guys on the other side of the law. We work with the junkies. We work with the addicts who are in the gutter actually enduring this shit. And we help them get better.

What I am saying is we need partnerships like the one I just described where we do work with courts. We do work with law enforcement. But we also work with the guys on the other side of the law. We work with the junkies. We work with the addicts who are in the gutter actually enduring this shit. And we help them get better.

What I am saying is we need partnerships like the one I just described where we do work with courts. We do work with law enforcement. But we also work with the guys on the other side of the law. We work with the junkies. We work with the addicts who are in the gutter actually enduring this shit. And we help them get better.

We help the other guys who are literally sometimes just in it to put food on their table. We help them find a better way out too. And I think by working that kind of I like to imagine it like this. This is a vice, you know, fighting from the top and the bottom at the same time. We can actually get some big shit done.

We help the other guys who are literally sometimes just in it to put food on their table. We help them find a better way out too. And I think by working that kind of I like to imagine it like this. This is a vice, you know, fighting from the top and the bottom at the same time. We can actually get some big shit done.

We help the other guys who are literally sometimes just in it to put food on their table. We help them find a better way out too. And I think by working that kind of I like to imagine it like this. This is a vice, you know, fighting from the top and the bottom at the same time. We can actually get some big shit done.

And if we have more time, we could talk about how we did exactly that in Afghanistan. We got big shit done, how we did it in Task Force Lahaina with the Maui fires, and we got big shit done. It's the same method. We're working from the bottom up and the top down. But that grassroots side is something we have complete and total control over. I don't have to wait on a bureaucracy to make a decision.

And if we have more time, we could talk about how we did exactly that in Afghanistan. We got big shit done, how we did it in Task Force Lahaina with the Maui fires, and we got big shit done. It's the same method. We're working from the bottom up and the top down. But that grassroots side is something we have complete and total control over. I don't have to wait on a bureaucracy to make a decision.

And if we have more time, we could talk about how we did exactly that in Afghanistan. We got big shit done, how we did it in Task Force Lahaina with the Maui fires, and we got big shit done. It's the same method. We're working from the bottom up and the top down. But that grassroots side is something we have complete and total control over. I don't have to wait on a bureaucracy to make a decision.

I can just move right now. I don't have to wait on legal to approve something. You know what I mean? And honestly, when you're dealing with an issue like human trafficking, veteran homelessness, anything where addiction touches it, I have seen more times than I can count a delay of hours result in death. Literally just hours ends up with a dead person. A month ago, we had two double funerals.

I can just move right now. I don't have to wait on legal to approve something. You know what I mean? And honestly, when you're dealing with an issue like human trafficking, veteran homelessness, anything where addiction touches it, I have seen more times than I can count a delay of hours result in death. Literally just hours ends up with a dead person. A month ago, we had two double funerals.

I can just move right now. I don't have to wait on legal to approve something. You know what I mean? And honestly, when you're dealing with an issue like human trafficking, veteran homelessness, anything where addiction touches it, I have seen more times than I can count a delay of hours result in death. Literally just hours ends up with a dead person. A month ago, we had two double funerals.

Siblings die within hours of each other. Oh, man. This has to stop, man. We're losing a generation of American youth. Fent is the number one killer of people, I think, under 55 now. And if you want to talk about that from a national security standpoint, recruitment's at an all-time low, and we're losing a generation of warfighters. Like 300 a day. That's kind of scary. Damn.

Siblings die within hours of each other. Oh, man. This has to stop, man. We're losing a generation of American youth. Fent is the number one killer of people, I think, under 55 now. And if you want to talk about that from a national security standpoint, recruitment's at an all-time low, and we're losing a generation of warfighters. Like 300 a day. That's kind of scary. Damn.

Siblings die within hours of each other. Oh, man. This has to stop, man. We're losing a generation of American youth. Fent is the number one killer of people, I think, under 55 now. And if you want to talk about that from a national security standpoint, recruitment's at an all-time low, and we're losing a generation of warfighters. Like 300 a day. That's kind of scary. Damn.

Nothing more, nothing less. That's some big, big impact. We have no plans on slowing down, man. We want to take what we're doing in Memphis... I want to quantify it and validate it by getting that city off of the top five deadliest cities list. And I'm going to blueprint exactly how I did it.