How will the Green Guru Dion deal with the federal RCMP over this prickly issue if he becomes le Premier Ministre du Canada?
Here’s the headline just now from Vancouver (which Dion is discovering today is part of that whole “Canada” thing):
Dion says Vancouver’s drug injection site works
VICTORIA—Liberal leader Stephane Dion is blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for not fully endorsing the safe drug injection site in downtown Vancouver.
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But not a few weeks ago I posted this as part of a blog entry which I entitled “Put this in your possibly state-sponsored crack pipe and smoke it”:
RCMP takes a swipe at injection site
Mounties say Insite’s lower risk encourages drug use
OTTAWA—The RCMP, which has publicly taken a neutral position on Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site for drug addicts, has produced an internal report harshly critical of the pilot project.
The three-page analysis, obtained by The Vancouver Sun, suggests that the “harm reduction” approach—helping addicts avoid overdosing or contracting HIV-AIDS—actually encourages drug use.
‘’The RCMP has concerns regarding any initiative that lowers the perceived risks associated with drug use,” states Staff-Sgt. C.D. (Chuck) Doucette, Pacific Region co-ordinator of the RCMP’s Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness program.
‘’There is considerable evidence to show that, when the perceived risks associated to drug use decreases, there is a corresponding increase in number of people using drugs.”
Doucette’s July 24, 2006 analysis, obtained through the Access to Information Act, was produced during the summer as Prime Minister Stephen Harper came under growing pressure to support Insite.
Harper, whose government is now planning a get-tough national drug strategy, voiced skepticism about the site that opened on a trial basis in late 2003. His government agreed in September only to extend the project’s licence only until December of 2007.
(Hat tip to Don-t Want To)
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