CFP: Not all the lunatics are in the asylum. Why? Because federal prison officials are providing needles to prisoners so they can inject themselves with illegal drugs. Now, Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, is being criticized for damning the use of injection sites in prison and in Canadian cities. Condoning drug use is the most illogical way to combat North America’s opioid epidemic. But what else would work?
The drug problem is like a cancerous growth that kills, not just people. Look at what has happened in Mexico and Columbia. Drug lords have amassed so much money they can bribe politicians, lawyers and the police. In effect, if not eliminated, illegal drugs can eventually destroy society as surely as malignancy kills patients. But will we ever learn from history?
Providing needles and drugs to prisoners is like giving an alcoholic another drink. He, or she, will keep coming back for another one. It also creates another bureaucracy. And in the end, bureaucracy needs the addicts for their employment, more than the addicts need the bureaucracy!
Some readers may think drug injection sites work. If that’s the case, why are 42,000 addicts, just in one Canadian province, lining up every week for methadone treatment, costing tens of millions of dollars to overburdened taxpayers?
So what would be effective in combating the use of illegal drugs? I have bad news for Doug Ford’s political critics, bleeding hearts, and do-gooders, in this country. You will continue to lose the war on drugs unless you bring back the death sentence. And with the current opioid epidemic, the need for capital punishment has never been more obvious.
Years ago in an address to the Empire Club of Toronto I complained that the court system has proven to be too inefficient for illegal drug dealers. That the solution was the creation of a special court to deal quickly with those caught pushing illegal drugs. In other words, the answer was Lee Kuan Yew’s “Singapore solution.”
Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, believed that you don’t show your teeth if you’re not prepared to bite. He decided to hang drug dealers until they heard this message, and it worked. more here
The push for free injection sites and the push to legalize marijuana make me wonder if the elites are intentionally trying to get us all doped up so that we will meekly submit to whatever they have in mind for us.
But walk down the street with an open beer, which you purchase from a Government controlled beer store, it’s ticket and maybe jail time if you’re drunk.
Canadians are as loonie as their money. Oui?
I would legalize it *all* — down to meth, crack, heroin and cocaine.
Keep the price low and treat addicts the way we do alcoholics.
Take the romance out of the use of the drugs and take the money away from the killer cartels.
Everything else is stomping mole hills. ….Lady in Red
Dat’s right LIR,
Free giant balls of meth coke hairwan.
If the giant ball of dope don’t kill
ya come get another one…Then into the incinerator
with Ya.No more NARCAN.
Methadone centers with individual rooms.
Junky enters, is hooked up and given a button to inject unlimited amounts of methadone.
Two hours later, clean up the mess dispose of the body, rinse and repeat.
I’m with the above commenters. Make ALL drugs legal, but also remove all the Gubberment safety nets (private safety nets is another thing). Shoot/snort/smoke all you want, but don’t expect Uncle Sugar to pick you up when you fall down……..except to haul your deceased carcass to the Potter’s Field (look it up).