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Montreal gets new marijuana compassion centre
CBC NewsA new compassion club offering medicinal marijuana has opened its doors in Montreal.
The Culture 420 Compassion Society set up shop on Park Avenue in Montreal's Mile-End district last week.
Organizers said their original location – in the southwest borough of Lachine – was overrun with customers.
"There are a lot of people travelling to the Lachine Compassion Centre, which was an issue," said centre spokesman Gary Webber. "We were struggling with the parking and overwhelming client base."
The organization went through proper municipal channels to open the new centre, and no one was opposed to the idea, said Webber.
Stop punishing addicts
By Drug policy discussions often take the form of a binary: treatment versus enforcement. Carrots and sticks. This is however, a problematic and wildly uneven binary. Treatment is not a carrot. Treatment is a long and arduous process that, at its best, acknowledges the complex nature of addiction and recovery – a process that, once embarked on by the addict, doesn’t stop until the day they die. Enforcement ignores this complexity – violently.
Support for safe injection sites
By A public health organization has voiced support for supervised injection sites in Quebec in a recent publication drawing from studies that examined Insite Vancouver, North America’s first supervised injection site.
The 2009 report from the Institut national de santé publique du Quebec (INSPQ) pointed to positive benefits such as minimizing disease transmission and overdose-related deaths, as well as providing injection drug users with access to health care as reasons for the recommendation.
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