Posted AT 6:34 AM EDT on 06/05/08
The war over drug policy
The results on Vancouver's controversial safe-injection site are in, and they're decisive. Insite, which offers clean needles and assistance to hard-drug users, is a remarkable success story. It saves lives, reduces infections and disease, and paves the way to detox. So why won't Ottawa extend the legal exemption under which it operates?
The answer, of course, is ideology. Stephen Harper's Conservatives are dead against anything that smacks of being soft on drugs.
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