And the standard Conservative stance on drugs Perrin now denounces, calling addicts scum over a second pre-lunch scotch-and-soda, is a parody of obtuse cruelty. The standard Conservative stance on drugs Perrin now denounces … is a parody of obtuse crueltyAdvocates of safe injection point to the incredible harm done by prohibition. And further to annoy Conservatives with conservative principle, drug prohibition does not work in practice because it does not work in theory. It is because drug prohibition violates people’s right to self-ownership through stiff penalties on co-operative behaviour that it causes disaster as surely as price-fixing does. Selley called sending addicts back to jail “a classic good-money-after-bad situation.” I say safe-injection sites are.

Source: National Post February 04, 2020 11:15 UTC