Canada’s crack capitals

Last week, the International Narcotics Control Board of the United Nations posted its annual report in which a finger was pointed directly at Canadian politics:

The Board calls upon the Government of Canada to end programmes, such as the supply of “safer crack kits”, including the mouthpiece and screen components of pipes for smoking “crack”, authorized by the Vancouver Island Health Authority, as they are in contravention of article 13 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. The distribution of drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users in Ottawa and Toronto, as well as the presence of drug injection sites is also in violation of the international drug control treaties, to which Canada is a party.

The arguments for and against the United Nations in this matter come from all directions. Some people agree. Some people say that the U.N. is just taking orders from the U.S. war on drugs and that the U.N. has no business telling Canadians how to deal with health issues. It is abhorrent that Canadian bureaucrats are facilitating illicit and dangerous drug use.

I reject “harm reduction” goals because I believe they represent demonic twisted priorities. Worrying about the “harm” of an intravenous drug user spreading disease among other drug users is warped. Here is their rallying cry: “I inject less as I have easier access to pipes” These “harm reduction” advocates even recommend that drug users do not recap their syringes for fear of pricking their fingers. You heard that right. Go figure!

Call me heartless but I do not give a damn about the drug users. My sympathies go out to the hapless innocent people who get stuck with discarded city syringes. I have collected discarded syringes and crack kits that were supplied by my municipality for free to drug users. They were scattered dangerously on side-walks, in play-grounds, around churches, behind apartment buildings and commercial properties.

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The drug users are usually quite destitute and they certainly need help. Supplying them with fresh paraphenalia is not the help they need.

I think drug pushers are horrible people. I think the bureaucrats who endorse these “harm reduction” programs and supply free syringes are horrible people too. I would not trust any of them.

The logistics of following the money is straight-forward:
from tax-payer to bureaucrat
from bureaucrat to welfare recipient
from welfare recipient to drug pusher

Oh, I forgot one person: the middleman. Somebody is making money by supplying the bureaucrats with the free syringes, crack pipes, lip balm, lubricants and condoms. Sweet gig.