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Originally Posted by kipperfan
I think it would be pretty funny if they set up a "safe injection" site somewhere in Calgary and operated for a few months, lulling all the addicts and bums into a false sense of security...and then one day start putting plainclothed cops outside the facility and start nabbing every single person who walks in the door, of course they would all be carrying, and would still be technically outside the "safe injection" site so it would be fair game......a giant sting on the desolate and despondant amongst us.
That was a joke(kind of...meh not really) but honestly screw this safe injection site nonsense....I think solving the drug problem is pretty easy, the problem is it requires the legislators and law makers to grow a pair. Up the penalties tenfold for possesion of hard drugs(crack, needle drugs...etc) and double the street patrol in our countries inner cities.
Jiri had a a good point in saying hard drugs usage is not isolated to just the homeless and poverty stricken folks...but lets call a spade a spade..they make up the lions share of the problem. Billy Buisnessman with a smack addiction isnt huddling behind the Cecil Hotel shooting up and throwing his needles on the streets....more then likely the white collar drug users go to the farthest lengths to hide their problem from the world.
My point is....if we ramp up the jail time for drug possesion and up the police presence within our inner cities...it would make it a hell of a lot harder for the drugies to effect everyday society the way they do today.
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And also cost the gov't billions of dollars... Trust me I live in Texas they did all this it didn't work instead ridiculous amounts of money got funnelled away from education to pay for the prison system. Where is the money in Calgary going to come from?