RSS FeedThe Solution is Insite, Part II
In October 2008 I wrote a bit about my personal opinions and experiences with Insite, a unique, government-funded legal safe injection site that has been on the front lines of Vancouver’s drug epidemic. Insite was also recently the source of much attention at the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference, covered by Omar. To my surprise, Insite and the legal issues surrounding it recently became the subject matter of a memorandum assigned to me by my “senior partner” (Legal Research and Writing professor). What I found in the course of writing this memo was a defective and hypocritical law, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (“CDSA”), and a brave decision in the Supreme Court of British Columbia that might one day change Canada’s drug laws for the better.
