The Ontario government tabled an omnibus bill Monday that includes a ban on provincially funded supervised consumption sites and a de facto ban on sites approved by the feds.
I lived in a highrise near a city hall once. I watched the same group of NIMBYs protest the opening of a safe injection site. Signs saying they don’t want drugs addicts flooding the streets. I could tell by the large trucks these folks didn’t actually live in the city. The protest ended as they all walked down the street to the grand opening of a new LCBO. The ribbon was cut to their cheers and applause.
An LCBO and a consumption site is not the same. You don’t consume the liqour at the LCBO and generally aren’t under the influence when there. I may be wrong but it feels like you are trying to compare them as similar services.
The difference is a safe injection site attempts to provide harm reduction and access to addiction treatment, while an LCBO retail location simply provides harm and addiction.
I lived in a highrise near a city hall once. I watched the same group of NIMBYs protest the opening of a safe injection site. Signs saying they don’t want drugs addicts flooding the streets. I could tell by the large trucks these folks didn’t actually live in the city. The protest ended as they all walked down the street to the grand opening of a new LCBO. The ribbon was cut to their cheers and applause.
An LCBO and a consumption site is not the same. You don’t consume the liqour at the LCBO and generally aren’t under the influence when there. I may be wrong but it feels like you are trying to compare them as similar services.
The difference is a safe injection site attempts to provide harm reduction and access to addiction treatment, while an LCBO retail location simply provides harm and addiction.