Oh, CANADA, what do we do with you?

Okay. I just read an article onthis blog that gets my blood boiling. Only in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside do you see "Safe injection sites", volunteers in red coats walking into back alleys handing out free drug paraphernalia (needles, rigs, alchohol swabs to clean up the blood after they're done injecting their bodies with the poison), and candy (drug addicts love sweet stuff...I wonder why). There are 'clinics' where addicts go to get their 'medicine'/methadone (a replacement drug for heroin addicts--government funded--instead of paying their dealers, the Government of Canada provides this substance and basically says, "here you go, get high on us"). Not only does our government provide access to methadone, but there is even a clinic called the NAOMI project in full swing, that doles out heroine- that's the real stuff, no substitutes. The government is turning itself into a dealer "for the dignity of addicts". Seriously, now. This is flawed logic. The latest consideration is now to hand out red wine to the alchoholic homeless as well. PEOPLE NEED TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE HERE.
1) Drug addicts unite to petition the government to give them free drugs and booze through people like Ann Livingstone (VANDU), and Don Macpherson (Vancouver's drug policy coordinator).
(This is like a suicidal person petitioning the government to hire a hitman so they can die in the most 'dignified' way possible considering their aspirations....which is ludicrous)
2) The Government says 'OKAY' (This is like putting out a death warrant on every person who takes advantage of these so-called 'services'. They are enabling habits that lead nowhere but death, and cutting funding to programs that actually have good success rates at rehabilitation....that is nonsense. But it's what's happening. The government would rather write off addicts as 'lost causes' and enable their deaths, than try and fight the source of their addiction in the first place.)
3) The end result is NOT reduced drug use, crime, or death rates, but instead sends out the message that, "yeah. You're an addict. You'll always be an addict. So deal with it. When you're dead and gone we'll have the Olympians stay in renovated suites where you used to use. Here's to 2010." Shame, Canada. Shame.