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Will the courts stop Doug Ford from banning safe consumption sites? (emmettmacfarlane.substack.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Note that the government isnโ€™t talking about moving SCSs outside of their arbitrary 200m zone from schools, theyโ€™ve simply announced their outright closure.

This is the crux. I don't really want a safe consumption site near my kids' school or daycare. I even think 200m is probably insufficient for a distance from a school or daycare. (I don't know what the actual distance should be, 200m just feels insufficient)

But I also want SCSs. Literally just move them. The infrastructure demand is not that intense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like if there are people shooting up in your schoolyard, then you really need a SCS within 200m.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The whole point is to move them somewhere safe to consume, for both the users and the public. Drugs can be pretty bad and make people do some bad things, from crimes to indecency. We dont need people fighting each other near schools, we dont need people relieving themselves in bushes near schools.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they not initially choose the sites near where there were the most problems. Like they said, if there are users doing it around the school, would you want to build a site there and have it contained, or build a site 2km away that doesnt reduce users near the school as much?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The difference between 200m and 2km is 10x. 200m feels very close, closer than many places will even place their bus stops to each other. Something along the lines of 500m-1km away from schools seems more reasonable IMO.

Drug users loiter and use drugs where they can get away with it. With proper resources provided elsewhere many will go there instead of shooting up in the school yard, the ones that linger and become problematic can be relocated to treatment sites by law enforcement and site staff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You're contradicting yourself and you are clearly not speaking from an informed point of view.