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Safe Injection Sites for Drug Users in your Community (Freep!)
The Globe and Mail ^
| 17 Aug 2006
| Globe and Mail (TO & National Newspaper)
Posted on 08/17/2006 3:16:11 AM PDT by timsbella
Would you support the creation of safe-injection sites for drug users in your community?
* Yes * No
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aids; crime; drugs; govwatch; hiv; mrleroybait; wodlist
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No kidding, question in a Canadian National Newspaper. I'd support a safe injection site - it's called prison.
People do drugs - then they commit crimes to support their habit - they get off for said crimes because they were not "liable" and we want to give them safe injection sites out of concern for their health? Right /sarc
Freep the libs who dreamed this one up.
(This is what I get for being up this early on my vacation.)
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:16:12 AM PDT
by
timsbella
To: GMMAC; fanfan
Good morning ping!
Falls into the "WTF" category. Keep T.O. (and other Canadian cities clean) - freep.
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:18:06 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: timsbella
Wish I could give you a link- about a decade ago, Ken Hamblin did an expose' of "safe" injection sites in the US. It's a fraud, a scam, and a hotbed of crime.
Other than that? Greeat idea... [ /bitter sarcasm ]
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:30:32 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: backhoe
Not to mention drugs finance terrorism, be it in Columbia or Afghanistan. I HATE this stuff.
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:44:02 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: timsbella
Safe injection sites include the fatty inside part of the thigh, the muscles on either side of the buttocks, or the inside of the upper arm. This information is well known to every diabetic.
To: timsbella; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; ...
Freep a poll.
Canada ping.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:14:55 AM PDT
by
fanfan
To: timsbella
Two drinks in a bar and you are legally drunk , but a junkie can drive to a govt. run place , get his fix , and drive away legally . Unblievable !!!
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:17:37 AM PDT
by
lionheart 247365
(( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
To: timsbella
Well since the poll is 47% yes and 53% no, does that mean that 47% of the people voting are drug addicts?
They should have had one more category.
"Are you out of your freakin' minds?"
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:46:19 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: timsbella
FREEPed & sanity is currently leading by about 10 points.
I've always like the description 'Canada's Unnatural Newspaper' for the pompous & relentlessly politically correct Mope & Wail.
Also, American FRiends shouldn't be surprised to learn it's roughly Canada's equivilent of the Washington Post (the Toronto red-Star is our NY Slimes) & the de facto mouthpiece of the Paul Martin & radical feminist & homosexual wings of the Liberal Party.
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:52:42 AM PDT
by
GMMAC
(Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
To: GMMAC
I would support these site if they were well planned. The site should be placed next to Hillay's home in Westchester. next to the Kennedy Compound in Massachusetts. next to John kerry's home in Aspen, Next to nancy Pelosi' palace in California.
With some proper planning these junkies could have a safe and comfortable place to shoot up, and then they could go out and lie on the lawns of their neighbors while coming down.
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:00:35 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: sgtbono2002
You are truly diabolical my FRiend.
Which is why I like you. :)
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:43:42 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: timsbella
Drug addiction, alcoholism and all other "isms" are diseases and, tut tut, the bleeding hearts trip all over themselves to compassionately deal with the problem.
Yet smoking, which is another addiction which can be just as difficult to kick as drug addition, and one which is supposed to be just as deadly to smokers (and the poor soul walking past someone having a cigarette outside in -10 degree weather) gets no such compassion. Smokers are pariahs. Smokers don't get 28 day inpatient rehab treatment. Smokers are just pushed to regions further and further away from the rest of humanity as though they were lepers.
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posted on
08/17/2006 6:02:36 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(When anything goes, everything does.)
To: timsbella; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; AmericaUnite; Aussie Dasher; backinthefold; ...
Thanks to fanfan for the ping.
FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me and gordongekko909 if you want to be added or removed from the Freep this Poll! Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list)
I am sure any residents or businesses in the area would love to have "Needle Park" next door!
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posted on
08/17/2006 6:28:03 AM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: 3catsanadog
Regarding smokers - only if the product of choice is tobacco. The left wants to legalize that tarry crud potheads smoke. Medicinal, ya know.
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posted on
08/17/2006 7:01:13 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: timsbella
To: lionheart 247365
And don't even think about lighting up a cigarette!!!!
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posted on
08/17/2006 7:49:44 AM PDT
by
Kimmers
To: AmericaUnite
No, they're serious. Fresh syringes for the health and safety of junkies who will just as soon rape and rob you.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:00:16 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: timsbella
If they can afford the price of dope they can buy their own syringes.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:42:12 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: sgtbono2002
They tend to leave that out of the news stories, and most people don't pick up on the logic.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:44:46 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: dynachrome
Would you support the creation of safe-injection sites for drug users in your community?
Yes
(50%) 7999 votes
No
(50%) 8033 votes
Total votes: 16032
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posted on
08/17/2006 11:19:46 AM PDT
by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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