02 March 2007

Even the UN gets it

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UPDATE: 2 Mar 2007 - Let's keep enabling drug use.

It doesn't hurt anyone.
-- MONTREAL -- A major investigation into a suspected cocaine-trafficking ring in the Montreal area ended in tragedy yesterday when a newly promoted detective was shot dead as he and other officers stormed into the home of a bar owner to execute a search warrant.
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If the end-game here in Canada is to eliminate addiction to illegal drugs... how does a "safe injection" site make any sense at all. Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't hand out cases of beer.

Hell... even the leftbot United Nations thinks this initiative is screwy.
-- UNITED NATIONS -- The UN's drug control agency is to warn Tony Clement, the Health Minister, that Canada is flouting international drug control treaties by enabling illicit drug use at a safe injection site in Vancouver and through drug-paraphernalia giveaways elsewhere.
On the other hand, the Liberals and the loony-left have no such qualms about enabling destructive and indeed, often fatal, behaviour.
In its 2003 report, the board noted that the Canadian government, then under a Liberal administration, had approved setting up the Vancouver facility, Insite, which was billed as a "safe, health-focused place where people can go to inject drugs."

In the latest report, the board expresses much greater alarm over the continued existence of the facility and reports of drug-enabling programs elsewhere, such as a crack pipe distribution initiative in Ottawa.
It's time to draw a line in the sand, over so-called "hard drugs" like cocaine and heroin. Let's have hellish penalties for selling any quantities of these poisons... as well as a tough love policy for addicts. Scooping up junkies every time you see them using and having them go through a cold-turkey withdrawal will serve to reinforce the message.

There will some short term pain as these measures are implemented, but in the long run, everyone will benefit.

It's time to take a stand.

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