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Tony Clement? is Brilliant.
If you look into it, you will find the vast majority of harms associated with drug use, [even heroin or cocaine], are either directly caused by drug prohibition or made hundreds of times worse.
You’ve hit the nail on the head; prohibition is incompatible with a free society. By telling you what you can and can’t put in your body, the government? is claiming ownership over it. The “drug war” has been used over and again as an excuse to remove civil liberties from all of society.
@lkcwu That’s a ridiculous argument. Addicts don’t have choice over whether to use or not – that’s why its called addiction. The duty of the public authority is to reduce the harm caused by their activities without promoting them. INSITE does not sell, or tell people where? to buy drugs, so it does not promote them. Addicts using INSITE inject drugs whether INSITE stays open or closes, but by remaining open it offers a first point of contact to treatment services for the most hardcore addicts.
Tony Clement is a fucking moron. People like him don’t give a shit about drug addicts. They are more than happy to see addicts die in the streets.
INSITE gives hardcore homeless addicts a first contact point with services? that might eventually lead to recovery.
Fry is a complete bitch!?
I’m not an expert on this field although I’ve worked as a physician in detox and substance abuse 12 step program. There are truly some patients who wouldn’t avail themselves of treatment. They would live in the most unhygienic conditions and would use the dirtiest syringe/needle. The key is harm reduction. The people in Vancouver BC are lucky (low crime, low? cost on health care of these hopelessly addicted persons, cleaner streets).
Talk about a double? standard!
All I can say is that what Dr Hedy Fry said is the truth. The downtown east side in Vancouver HAS been cleaned up due to the safe? injection site. It HAS led to addicts seeking treatment. It HAS prevented unnecessary overdoses that would land addicts in hospital, taking up beds for innocent people. The safe injection site, to my amazement (I was very much opposed to it), HAS worked.
And Tony Clement didn’t answer Dr Fry’s damn question! Shame on the Conservatives and kudos to Dr Hedy Fry!
Tony Clement has a huge communications problem
On you tube he says “i believe in needle sharing ” during his misspeak
lets give Harper a reason to put tony down for his lack of communications skills
OTTAWA – A tape? recording at the centre of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s $3.5-million defamation suit against the Liberal party was not altered as the prime minister has claimed, a court-ordered analysis of the tape by Harper’s own audio expert has found.
I agree with you about decriminalizing prostitution and soft drugs – liberty is the freedom to do whatever you like as long as others aren’t harmed. If there is no victim other than oneself, there should be no crime. Government should limit itself to guarding our liberties? and protecting us from harm.
But dispensing narcotics (hard drugs) harms the addict and is against the law, so unless we want to decriminalize narcotics then this is the only viable position the government can take.
“crime”and”abuse” wouldn’t be there if prostitution was legal. you choose? your profession and everyone else should choose they’re own( no matter what you choose(depending on the money involved… and there is money involved). Freedom Baby! Like it or leave it. Drugs are the “medication” just like the medication that is sold legally for depression, but without all the “supposed” side-effects. Stop looking at the act and look at the “guilty” consequences instead. one connects to the other….
Nope. It makes no? sense at all.
Ya Hedy Fry says? every life is precious to her and acuses the conservative minister of dismissing someones right to life, but, wait….don’t the liberals SUPPORT abortion? HHMMMM…..well that’s strange, a useless drug addicts life is more important to her than, an unborn babie’s life is, does that make any sense whatsoever?