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# How about a one-way ticket?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/how-about-a-one-way-ticket-editor/
- Published: 2004-05-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:23:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Robin Steely Santa Monica*

Regarding your community profile on “Cancer” (SMDP, May 24, page 1). Give me a break. This guy wants to be a rock star or a chemist so he can design his “drug of choice?” He has parents. Give him a one-way ticket back to them so he can do his thing back home and be one less homeless person on the streets. He doesn’t want to live on the streets? Sure. I repeat: Send him home. Also, send his “friends,” one of whom is in jail. Sounds like a great group, just the kind of guys we need hanging around the mall.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 25, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052504.pdf?ref=smdp.com)