MEDS AND CIRCUSES:

MP panel backs injection sites for addicts: Committee to push for liberalization of drug laws later in the week (Peter O'Neil, December 09, 2002, The Vancouver Sun)

A special parliamentary committee will recommend today the federal government establish pilot safe-injection sites for chronic heroin users in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.

The MPs will also advocate a more liberalized law on marijuana possession, though that recommendation will be delayed until later in the week because of fear the issue would dominate the dozens of other ideas in the report.

It also calls for the creation of a national drug commissioner, though MPs will stress the position won't focus on criminal justice matters and therefore won't be modelled after the U.S. drug czar.

Why not just cut to the chase and begin government distribution of soma? Posted by Orrin Judd at December 9, 2002 9:48 AM