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.**********
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."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.
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.
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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