WHEN LOGIC SEEMS SKIN DEEP

Drug Sites

RE: 'Safe needle site opens' and 'Feds stick to tobacco ban' (Sept. 16).

These were two small articles under 'briefly' but I really can't believe what
I'm reading! A drug injection site is opened -- funded by the government (with
nurses on hand) to watch people shoot up with illegal drugs (they must bring
their own drugs in) bought on the streets, with money probably acquired through
illegal means.

The government is firmly behind banning tobacco advertising (which is a legal
substance) from Grand Prix car races. Someone needs to explain to me how the
government finds it OK for me to go to a safe needle site and shoot up my
illegal drugs; yet watching a car race with du Maurier on it is bad for my
health.

Patti Appleyard,

Hamilton