Pubdate: Tue, 11 Feb 2014
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2014 Chris Briault
Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Chris Briault
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

DRUG SHOCKER

My jaw couldn't help from dropping after reading an aid worker in
Vancouver setting up crack pipe vending machines.

"We encourage and embrace safe practices,"... he states, but is he
saying he encourages smoking crack? He finishes by saying "it protects
all of us and saves money."

Okay, I guess it'll save money if you put used pop cans, and empty
toilet paper rolls for users to make crack pipes.

What makes this even better (my sarcasm gets the best of me at times)
is their justification: "Condoms are available in vending machines."

Why stop there guys? Heck, make syringe vending machines; I mean,
condoms are available in vending machines.

What about alcohol and marijuana vending machines? Condoms are in
vending machines. Some elderly man may want to remember this year's
Valentine's Day, so why not have a Viagra vending machine next to the
condom machine?

Can someone please tell me where we left our sanity?

Chris Briault via E mail

(We left our sanity in a vending machine)  
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