Pubdate: Mon, 10 May 2004 Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC) Copyright: 2004 Times Colonist Contact: http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481 Author: Martin Allen Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?142 (Safe Injecting Rooms) SAFE INJECTION SITE NOT A TOP PRIORITY Either Jack Knox has been smoking, snorting or shooting up, or he's simply lost track of what his message was intended to be. One way or the other, he certainly picked a strange poster boy for the campaign to install a "safe injection site" in our once-lovely city. He gave front-page billing to some up-yours, in-your-face promoter for the addiction industry, with a home of his own and a $160-a-day "habit" that Knox concedes could possibly be supported by "petty crime." Well Jack, at around $5,000 a month for narcotics alone, either your man is a union worker, has wealthy and doting parents, or he's into a significant amount of trafficking. My bet would have to be on the latter, and I'm sure he would love to see addicts encouraged and comforted to the greatest possible extent while they indulge themselves. Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but this is the same fellow who told Knox that if he had a "safe place" to inject, he "wouldn't leave [his] rigs on the sidewalk for the children to step on." Translation: my instincts hover around the level of a dog's, and unless you hire someone to pick up after me, I'll crap where I stand and you can all walk in it. Jack, do you live in this city, or don't you? Martin Allen, Victoria. - --- MAP posted-by: Josh