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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.

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

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

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Exactly! It’s so short sighted.

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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.

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

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