THE SPEECH
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OF A 30-MINUTE PRESENTATION. The pos above explains a bit more of the message.
Monday, November 5, 2007
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8 comments:
Poignant, compelling commentary, too bad it cuts off at the 10 minute mark. You wouldn't appreciate 'Key Largo' ending when Robinson's Claire Trevor's character demands his associate give Bogey a drink, would you? Although I'm a youngster, I really appreciate the analogy, but I must confess 'Across the Pacific' is more of a favourite, if only because I'm from Medicine Hat. I have an Uncle(now clean, in spite of it) in prison in Prince Albert, Sask. due to a crime related to his drug addiction , he affirms your belief and experience and has also expressed overwhelming bewilderment at the drug policy that seems to be building speed here and elsewhere.
Poignant, compelling commentary, too bad it cuts off at the 10 minute mark. You wouldn't appreciate 'Key Largo' ending when Robinson's Claire Trevor's character demands his associate give Bogey a drink, would you? Although I'm a youngster, I really appreciate the analogy, but I must confess 'Across the Pacific' is more of a favourite, if only because I'm from Medicine Hat. I have an Uncle(now clean, in spite of it) in prison in Prince Albert, Sask. due to a crime related to his drug addiction , he affirms your belief and experience and has also expressed overwhelming bewilderment at the drug policy that seems to be building speed here and elsewhere.
Poignant, compelling commentary, too bad it cuts off at the 10 minute mark. You wouldn't appreciate 'Key Largo' ending when Robinson's Claire Trevor's character demands his associate give Bogey a drink, would you? Although I'm a youngster, I really appreciate the analogy, but I must confess 'Across the Pacific' is more of a favourite, if only because I'm from Medicine Hat. I have an Uncle(now clean, in spite of it) in prison in Prince Albert, Sask. due to a crime related to his drug addiction , he affirms your belief and experience and has also expressed overwhelming bewilderment at the drug policy that seems to be building speed here and elsewhere.
Well done David! If only "they" would listen. They do the addicts a great disservice by enabling them. How sad.
June
Thank you David, and thank you Mr. Werner. That is all I wish to say..........the Presentation speaks for it's self.
No it doesn't! I still don't have one shred of a compelling argument to consider! Nice speech and all - but the point was quite literally lost! Please have a blog post that enlightens us. I mean that sincerely: I am on the fence on this issue and would appreciate being able to discern intelligent arguments on both sides. I have the pro-injection-site argument, I'm looking for yours. If I don't find one I'll have to conclude there isn't one -- and your argument is all anecdote and no substance.
Insite or Insight
is just a nice way to slowly kill these people off, while costing us mucho l'argent
the govies don't want to try and cure these people. they want to give them rights (drugs) & seem sympathetic to their plight. Nobody wants to do the work, but enabling is the easy way out.
Then again the govies might want to keep funding (enabling) because of the growing drug addict population. The only way to get the vote would be to hand out the needle & the damage done with a ballot at the Insite Polling station
not so anonymous - geraldo
David you are approaching this only from the addicts point of view. (i.e. what will work to cure them) The "harm reduction" argument represents taxpayers who are fed up having their homes and cars broken into and having their tax dollars going to pay for cops and jails to arrest and incarcerate these people. It is, hopefully a first step toward full legalization of all these substances.
My primary concern lies not with the addict but with the cost that addiction places on the rest of us. Addiction is a social problem as well as a personal health issue. 100 years of prohibition has created, not solved, this problem.
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