Pubdate: Sun, 08 Jan 2017
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Tim Bakos
Page: 14
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

BAD IDEA

Our society is truly upside down. You cannot legally have a smoke in a
public park, but we want to help druggies inject themselves with illegal
and harmful substances? Really? Drugs are harmful. No doubt about it.

So, the wingnut solution to - cough - reduce harm is to enable the
druggies to do so more easily?

Don't give me that "harm reduction" crap.

Now we're going to have vending machines? Really? Vending implies "sales."
How much is a needle? What druggie in their right mind (pardon the pun)
would pay for it?

Our tax dollars at work? Enabling druggies? Really?

The entire taxpaying province and city should be fuming at this prospect!

And what does our mayor decide to do? Nothing. Great. Happy future
retirement, Jim.

Tim Bakos

Ottawa

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(Well, the point is that they're going to use regardless. Might as well
make it safe. But the concerns are understandable among the public.)
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