Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Clement: Smoke More!

The Globe and Mail reports that Tony Clement planned to resuscitate a talking-down approach to addressing drug use while ignoring the plain truth that safe-injection sites are far more likely to actually solve part of the problem. And remarkably, Clement's justification is even worse than the planned policy:
Mr. Clement decried the fact that, in Canada, there are nearly as many people who smoke marijuana as ones who smoke tobacco, and blamed vague, ambiguous messaging from politicians and public-health officials.
So on Clement's terms, it'll be a success if more Canadians start smoking tobacco (such as to reduce the relative number who smoke marijuana). Now that's the kind of clear, unambiguous message Canadians need to hear...

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