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Author Spider Robinson, pictured in an alley behind Main and Hastings in Vancouver, October 28, 2010. - Author Spider Robinson, pictured in an alley behind Main and Hastings in Vancouver, October 28, 2010. | Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

Author Spider Robinson, pictured in an alley behind Main and Hastings in Vancouver, October 28, 2010.

Author Spider Robinson, pictured in an alley behind Main and Hastings in Vancouver, October 28, 2010. - Author Spider Robinson, pictured in an alley behind Main and Hastings in Vancouver, October 28, 2010. | Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail
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Earlier discussion

Give addicts all the drugs they want

Globe and Mail Update

Author Spider Robinson's One Big Idea to make Vancouver a better place is to make drugs available to anyone who wants them under controlled, safe conditions - and so clean up the city's most troubled intersection, Main and Hastings.

What do you think? Sound idea - or recipe for disaster?

Mr. Robinson and Globe reporter Ian Bailey took questions on the subject - and you can read the discussion below.