Why should society encourage drug users who in turn support the drug cartels who kill thousands if innocents each year. In no way should drugs be supported for use just because the cost is to high and legalizing them will not break organized crime.
Vancouver’s safe-injection site
- Thread starter Unforgiven
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A damn good idea.
Good idea. Get more dirty needles off the street, treat more people for addiction, and reduce more harm.
Insite must be working if E. Van went from being HIV Capital of the Western World to Regina being #1 with a double than average rate of infection.
Drug use will be around long after we are dead and gone. The sites reduce social crime
if nothing else. We have people using the site instead of going through the court system
again and again using lawyer services, from the justice society etc. In addition we need
to understand these people using the site are not going to be productive citizens any
time soon and its cheaper to allow them to live out their time doing what they are doing
instead of trying constantly to reform them, train them and introduce them to a new way
of life. Won't happen for most.
The sites do I suppose condone drug use that is going to happen anyway and it will for
decades. Closing the sites is not about the use of drugs or condoning anything. It is
about ideology of a government that didn't get elected in the 80's and wants to continue
beating dead horses. This is age old Reform social conservatism and they are hell bent
on going back to the 19Th century.
With all of its short comings and warts leaving the sites up and running is still far better
policy than going back to the old ways. It is unfortunate but true.
if nothing else. We have people using the site instead of going through the court system
again and again using lawyer services, from the justice society etc. In addition we need
to understand these people using the site are not going to be productive citizens any
time soon and its cheaper to allow them to live out their time doing what they are doing
instead of trying constantly to reform them, train them and introduce them to a new way
of life. Won't happen for most.
The sites do I suppose condone drug use that is going to happen anyway and it will for
decades. Closing the sites is not about the use of drugs or condoning anything. It is
about ideology of a government that didn't get elected in the 80's and wants to continue
beating dead horses. This is age old Reform social conservatism and they are hell bent
on going back to the 19Th century.
With all of its short comings and warts leaving the sites up and running is still far better
policy than going back to the old ways. It is unfortunate but true.
I was in that joint years ago visiting an uncle who lost his marbles- pretty formidable joint!
I lived just up the hill in Coq. Ranch park or something like that. Strange street names like Wagon Wheel, Saddle, Butternut and Pasture. Riverview was a nice place to bike through with the kid.