Why are you comparing Canadian drug policies to Europe? It would be far better to compare our drug policies with Asian countries who have over 100 years experience in having to live with drug addictions.
In China, for example, every addict is given involuntary drug addiction treatments. Drug importing and dealing are extremely serious criminal offences. Addicts are not allowed to die on the streets.
Our streets are becoming dangerous.
You are right. Are public libraries suppose to be institutions for learning or are they resources for the homeless, the drug addicted and the mentally ill. They can't be both. Pick one or the other. If they don't make the choice, the general public will do it for them by staying away.
Agree with a lot of your response (and always to most of BtN pieces), but not sure comparisons to non-democratic countries like China are a better comparison than some W. European countries. China was also able to quickly and dramatically reduce mortality, esp kids, over a few decades; many millions of kids not starving to death. They didn't need to go through our onerous democratic processes. Not sure we have that 'luxury' in Canada. In addition, some countries such as Finland try to make library spaces truly inclusive and even have some limited sleeping pods for folks. I don't think public spaces should be exclusionary- but they must enforce social contracts that used to include not shooting up near city fountains or in hospital rooms..... this is not a drug issue. It's a function of deeply torn and disintegrating social fabric that causes 'the least among us' to go cuckcoo.
Why are you comparing Canadian drug policies to Europe? It would be far better to compare our drug policies with Asian countries who have over 100 years experience in having to live with drug addictions.
In China, for example, every addict is given involuntary drug addiction treatments. Drug importing and dealing are extremely serious criminal offences. Addicts are not allowed to die on the streets.
Our streets are becoming dangerous.
You are right. Are public libraries suppose to be institutions for learning or are they resources for the homeless, the drug addicted and the mentally ill. They can't be both. Pick one or the other. If they don't make the choice, the general public will do it for them by staying away.
Agree with a lot of your response (and always to most of BtN pieces), but not sure comparisons to non-democratic countries like China are a better comparison than some W. European countries. China was also able to quickly and dramatically reduce mortality, esp kids, over a few decades; many millions of kids not starving to death. They didn't need to go through our onerous democratic processes. Not sure we have that 'luxury' in Canada. In addition, some countries such as Finland try to make library spaces truly inclusive and even have some limited sleeping pods for folks. I don't think public spaces should be exclusionary- but they must enforce social contracts that used to include not shooting up near city fountains or in hospital rooms..... this is not a drug issue. It's a function of deeply torn and disintegrating social fabric that causes 'the least among us' to go cuckcoo.
News item today. Campbell River has a of ODs this month due to toxic drugs
The advice, use drugs with friends and test them if you can. RIDICULOUS
How about. STOP USING THESE TOXIC DRUGS OR THEY WILL KILL YOU.. CALL THE POLICE AND TURN IN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE KILLING YOU WITH THESE DRUGS.
We have gone mad. No wonder Mr T has struck a chord in the US.