I just read a post and a dozen or so comments at Jesse Gritter’s blog regarding safe injection clinics. And although I usually share many views Jesse has, I have to say that in this case I have to disagree.
Something is definately wrong in this country when we ostracize smokers, boot them out of every government building, out of every restaurant and push the smokers off hospital property to have a smoke but we provide a nice cushy private room with a sink and free needles for heroin addicts to shoot up.
Think about that. We are punishing those who put taxes into the government coffers by using a legal substance and we give law breaking heroin addicts a nice cushy place to shoot an illegal substance into their veins.
And now the Harper government is giving the clinics enough money to stay open for at least another year.
Why Stephen…..why????
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I’m guessing they’ve pushed it back until after the next federal election.
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Maybe Mac. But how many heroin addicts vote? The news said they were going to wait and see what the effects were on HIV rates. If results match those of the crack pipe kit program here in Ottawa, it won’t take long to shut them down.
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Perhaps they want an opportunity to evaluate this experiment and see if it truly does have value? Either that or Emerson was able to sway the caucus.