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applegrove

(123,134 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 10:03 PM Apr 2018

Doug Ford, mid level drug dealer in high school and running for premier

of Ontario, has come out against supervised safe injection sites in the province. Creep. He says the focus should be on rehab. But safe injection sites educate drug users on their options. Injection sites save lives and they don't increase drug use or riskier drug consumption in the long term studies say.

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Doug Ford, mid level drug dealer in high school and running for premier (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2018 OP
Rob Ford's brother? dawg day Apr 2018 #1
Yes. Gov. Gerry Brown was warning Ontarians of the backtracking applegrove Apr 2018 #2

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. Rob Ford's brother?
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 10:36 PM
Apr 2018

Mike Pence refused to allow needle exchanges when he was governor, even when there were more than 100 cases of HIV from tainted needles in an opioid-riddled rural county. He finally gave in, but by that time, dozens more had been infected.

applegrove

(123,134 posts)
2. Yes. Gov. Gerry Brown was warning Ontarians of the backtracking
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 10:39 PM
Apr 2018

Doug Ford will do on the environment if he wins. Ontario, Quebec and California got together to sign a progressive climate deal. Ford is ahead. and I don't think the election has formally started yet.

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