ChenWei91 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 As a Calgarian, I'm so very sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckofSteel Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I'm sure he had some friends that used drugs with him... to me that would makes sense. or some might say they didn't do enough either way you missed the point of my post which was that they are NOT to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampage Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Holy F**k what a stupid article. Yeah lady it was Vancouver, it was Vancouver that took that needle filled it up with heroin then strapped him down to a gurney and injected him. FFS how do people like this even get a job in writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosalie52 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Drug addicts need to be helped, not judged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Maybe it IS time to start re-thinking safe injection sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosalie52 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 And how can her addiction, the double crunch sushi roll, be compared to an addiction to heroin? What a lack of sensitivity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I'm pretty sure Monteith has his own drug dealer, not some two-bit bum on the DTES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Maybe it IS time to start re-thinking safe injection sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Do you even know what safe injection sites are? They provide clean needles so that drug addicts don't spread diseases like Hepatitis. They don't supply the drugs for the junkies. But they do provide drug counseling if these people want it. Safe injection sites have nothing to do with rich people who do heroin. These people will get their heroin regardless of safe injection sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosalie52 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Drug addicts are first and foremost human beings who need compassion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I was subtly trying to say that the writer is attacking the safe injection site premise...not so much the city of Vancouver. At least that's how I read it. And is the problem getting any better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Well when we're talking about a rich celebrity who could probably get their Heroin anywhere they want, it's not really relevant. And is the problem getting any better? Get back to me in 10 years when Hepatitis cases have gone down significantly and no longer are a threat to the general public. Remember the next time you take public transit that these same Heroin addicts take the bus too. I don't know about you, but I don't want to contract Hepatitis from riding a bus or skytrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qAakzl6s7QI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Yet, he was in Vancouver. Yes, he probably could have gotten his heroin anywhere but maybe it's a lil easier here? I'm playing devils advocate here, Deniro. I am not against the sites, I just don't think everyone should be attacking the writer for bashing Vancouver when she's bashing the program(allowed to have an opinion, no?). Everyone is so sensitive around here, no one can be the least bit critical without a following outrage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THERETOOL Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 wasnt it jeff goldblum who said " heroin ahh , ahh , cant be contained " ? and that "crackeads uh , will find a way "? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I'm not outraged. I'm telling you why the safe injection sites are a good thing, and why Cory Monteith should have no relevance to them. The author of this clearly wanted to attach a celebrities name to get people's attention so that they could spew crap about their own beliefs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonLever Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Well when we're talking about a rich celebrity who could probably get their Heroin anywhere they want, it's not really relevant. And is the problem getting any better? Get back to me in 10 years when Hepatitis cases have gone down significantly and no longer are a threat to the general public. Remember the next time you take public transit that these same Heroin addicts take the bus too. I don't know about you, but I don't want to contract Hepatitis from riding a bus or skytrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 You don't catch hepatitis from riding the bus. This stupid statement invalidates your entire point about Insite doing good in preventing hepatitis or other diseases. Insite is the biggest scam out there. Those invory tower elites always pararde statistics showing deaths were prevented by people using Insite. What they don't say is how many come clean from using Insite. How many people stop using drugs. What Insite does is enable drug use. Saying that it is ok to use drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Than I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the others in this thread or the people on twitter.... "@GlobalBC: Calgary columnist @liciacorbella is under fire for blaming Vancouver's safe injection site for Cory Monteith's death http://t.co/GfT3yJkUxc" People excited to come to Vancouver to do heroin is not "spewing crap." And it's not just in her article thay I've heard that. OK so less addicts carry Hep C, but what if the number of addicts triples? Quadruples? Same amount of Hep C going around the city. When it comes to situations such as these, I'm all for objectivity....is all I'm saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Well I don't know how many people are "excited" to come to Vancouver to do Heroin. The DTES is not exactly a glamorous destination for what you would deem drug tourists. The problem is not the availability of Heroin. Heroin is everywhere, and if it isn't people manufacture other drugs. The problem is a social issue in Canada, and Vancouver just happens to be the focal point because it has Canada's mildest climate for a major city. So therefore we attract homeless people, and a lot of them happen to be drug addicts. This problem should be addressed at a federal level because Vancouver is fronting alot of the costs for what is a nation wide problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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