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Monday, February 05, 2007

Activists Plan 'Safe Site' for Drug Smokers

Another article on calls for a "safe inhalation site" in Vancouver:

Addicts who smoke hard drugs will have an indoor place to get their fix if a Vancouver drug users group is able to open North America's first safe inhalation site later this year....

Such an unsanctioned facility would provide a supervised location for addicts to smoke crack cocaine and heroin, in much the same way that Insite -- Vancouver's legally sanctioned three-year-old safe injection site -- provides services to addicts who inject the same drugs.

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