SAFE INJECTION SITE NOT A TOP PRIORITY

Either Jack Knox has been smoking, snorting or shooting up, or he's simply
lost track of what his message was intended to be. One way or the other, he
certainly picked a strange poster boy for the campaign to install a "safe
injection site" in our once-lovely city.

He gave front-page billing to some up-yours, in-your-face promoter for the
addiction industry, with a home of his own and a $160-a-day "habit" that
Knox concedes could possibly be supported by "petty crime."

Well Jack, at around $5,000 a month for narcotics alone, either your man is
a union worker, has wealthy and doting parents, or he's into a significant
amount of trafficking. My bet would have to be on the latter, and I'm sure
he would love to see addicts encouraged and comforted to the greatest
possible extent while they indulge themselves.

Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but this is the same fellow who told Knox
that if he had a "safe place" to inject, he "wouldn't leave [his] rigs on
the sidewalk for the children to step on." Translation: my instincts hover
around the level of a dog's, and unless you hire someone to pick up after
me, I'll crap where I stand and you can all walk in it.

Jack, do you live in this city, or don't you?

Martin Allen,

Victoria.