CRACK NEVER SAFE

Dear editor,

In the name of compassion, Courtenay has decided to supply crack-pipe
kits to drug addicts in hopes of reducing diseases.

Does the city council not realize this enables the addict to continue
his/her slow, self-administered suicide?

The moral (and legal, I might add) action to take is to incarcerate
the addicts and force, even temporary, sobriety on these
individuals.

For the very few who continue in their sobriety after incarceration,
their lives will be saved, and, I might add, they will not contract
diseases related to addiction.

One life saved through the law is better than facilitating the slow
death of thousands through the compassion, so-called, of supplying
free crack-pipe kits.

In reality, which method shows true compassion to the
addicts?

Robert Perry

Vancouver