Canadian NGO Installs First-Ever Crack Pipe Vending Machines

Published February 10, 2014

Canadian NGO Installs First-Ever Crack Pipe Vending Machines
The Portland Hotel Society, a drug treatment facility in British Columbia, established the brightly colored polka-dot dispensers as a method of fighting the spread of HIV and other diseases among addicts. The concern is that as crack pipes heat and …
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Re-entry court: Sacramento's spin on realignment
Under realignment, California for the last 21/2 years has been shifting responsibility for the drug addicts and small-time thieves who used to crowd the state prisons to the 58 counties, giving local jurisdictions latitude in how to deal with the …
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Chronicle AM–February 10, 2014
It would also direct the state to license and regulate marijuana retail, cultivation, production, and testing facilities. …. Instead of sending minor offenders back into the criminal justice system, LEAD offers them a chance to obtain essential …
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