In the name of compassion Courtenay has decided to supply crack-pipe kits to drug addicts in hopes of reducing diseases. Does the city council not realize this enables the addict to continue his/her slow, self-administered suicide?

The moral action to take is to incarcerate the addicts and force even temporary sobriety on these individuals. For the very few who continue in their sobriety after incarceration their lives will be saved and, I might add, they will not contract diseases related to addiction.

One life saved is better than facilitating the slow death of thousands through the so-called compassion of supplying free crack-pipe kits. Which method shows true compassion to the addicts?

Robert J. Perry

Victoria

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In the name of compassion Courtenay has decided to supply crack-pipe kits to drug addicts in hopes of reducing diseases. Does the City Council not realize this enables the addict to continue his/her slow, self-administered suicide?

The moral (and legal, I might add) action to take is to incarcerate the addicts and force, even temporary, sobriety on these individuals. For the very few who continue in their sobriety after incarceration their lives will be saved and, I might add, they will not contract diseases related to addiction.

One life saved through the law is better than facilitating the slow death of thousands through the compassion, so-called, of supplying free crack-pipe kits. In reality which method shows true compassion to the addicts?

Robert J. Perry Victoria

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