American Thinker: Coke, Pepsi, or OxyContin. Could that be coming to a vending machine near you? Not yet, but the race is on in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle to see which American city will be first to radically advance the so-called “harm reduction” movement, which seeks to coddle drug addicts through programs such as safe injection sites.
Officials recently granted preliminary approvals of safe injection sites in all three cities – or, another way of putting it, safe spaces for shooting up heroin. They are all inspired by Vancouver, Canada. There, a person credited with establishing the first such facility in North America is now advocating for even more extreme measures to provide comfort and convenience for drug addicts. Yes, the top health official in British Columbia is proposing vending machines to dispense opioid “painkillers.” Mark Tyndall, director of the province’s Center for Disease Control, is suggesting not OxyContin, but another opioid painkiller he hopes will reduce abuse of heroin, fentanyl, and other more potent versions of the drug.
As the Canadian health official demonstrates, there is no limit to the lunacy of the harm reduction movement. Encompassing needle exchange programs, which began in the 1980s, and fueled by the opioid epidemic today, harm reduction measures include various drug therapies and safe injection sites. While Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle are not yet proposing vending machines, they nevertheless hold up Vancouver as a case study in how to treat opioid addicts. MORE HERE
Opiods! Sure, why not? Just keep taxing the begeezus out of sugary drinks.
Is there any doubt the liberals are finishing that CPUSA punchlist? How’d ya like those fabulous homo Olympics?
Now if we’ll just STOP giving AWAY Narcan, we can REALLY make some headway on FIXING the opioid… “crisis.”
Drug abuse has CONSEQUENCES, not UN-like elections… 😡
Sounds like an idea whose time has come.
Get the gov’t out of the drug business.
No reason on Earth, in the 21st Century, for anyone to suffer in pain (except politicians, lawyers, middle managers, bad cops, journalists, nihilistic socialists, &c.) – and the gov’t produces problems, it doesn’t solve them.
izlamo delenda est …
For once, I agree with liberals. Give drugged out imbeciles all the free heroin they want! Even those in prison! Since they have no self restraint the problem will soon take care of itself.
If we’re going to have vending machines for pain killers, I insist on vending machines for booze miniatures and beer.
p.s. The vending machine in the photo accepts two dollar bills!?!? I thought I was the last person in the U.S. who still asks for and uses $2 bills. Tom Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father.
Just make sure the safe space is secure, as in those using that space are secured away from the rest of us. Forever.
@ Al When I was younger, a couple of us converted a “borrowed” coke machine to dispense hops infused cold liquid gold.
@cfm990 – Cool!
I’ll always remember the happy surprise I felt on my first visit to the USVI back in the late 70s and saw a Heineken vending machine. In cans, unfortunately, but only 50¢ each!
Meanwhile, people with actual horrible physical pain from actual physical problems can’t get fucking pain pill because junkies ruin everything for everybody so doctors are afraid to help their patients who are actually suffering and do not abuse the things that provide relief (which they are denied from obtaining). I’d approve of the machines if people with actual pain could get relief I steal d of just junkies getting high since doctors are afraid to give pain patients pain medicine.
“instead of junkies”
Not I steal.
Stupid autocorrect
I’m most tolerant. They can do whatever they want on the other side, once the wall goes up. Bing bong bing BING!
With a few tweaks, this could work…
Make the vending machines defective, impenetrable and heavier than a full Liberty gun safe… with spindly legs underneath!
@Zilla – Well said, even WITH stupid autocorrect!
The painkiller laws and regs parallel gun laws and regs. Those willing to do illegal things are not seriously inconvenienced, but the otherwise law-abiding are criminalized for engaging in legitimate activity.
What better way to gain and keep democRAT voters than feeding addicts for free? Desperate transparency of loser democRATS.
Will Doctors accept this giant pay cut ?
I’m pulling for Seattle and why stop at Oxy, let’s go big, go Fentanyl
Just keep it in Seattle and I am down for it
JDHasty, make sure the dosage is enough to put down a Clydesdale and will endorse it also.
I just got discharged from my Drs practice where I was receiving Percocet for pain because he had turned his clinic into a methadone clinic. More money in addicts than people with real pain!
UNK AL= The display says .05- $2.00.
It does not convey anything about a two
dollar bill.
China is flooding us with Fentanyl because people are going to the streets for pain meds because of our crackdown on legitimate prescriptions.
When your hear “opioid deaths”, its almost universally fentanyl which kills in tiny fractions of an oxycontin dose.
Once again, the government cure hs led to tens of thousands more deaths per year.
@BUTTHEADICUS – Actually it says MACHINE ACCEPT(S) $0.05 – $2.00
I took that to mean that the machine takes nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, one dollar and two dollar bills, but not pennies or fives or higher.
Are you suggesting that there’s something in that machine that you can buy for a nickel? Srsly?
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