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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

This nonsense with safe injection sites, politicians interfering with patent care, and the push for "involuntary treatment" in BC makes me think that the brief era of "science-based policy" where empirical data trump public ignorance is coming to a crashing end.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because a lack if clean needles is not going to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And then it’s going to put more pressure on the medical system to take care of them. This is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ford's policies make it clear that he clings to the outmoded view that addiction is a moral failing and can be stopped by strength of will alone. He'd rather feel superior than save lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Exactly! It's so short sighted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Because he is a criminal who is directly responsible for the death of countless people during the start of COVID?