Addicts shoot up in safe haven in Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Heroin, cocaine and amphetamines are the kind of street drugs you expect to find in the shady corners of any city, hiding away from the glare of law enforcement.
But in one small space in downtown Vancouver addicts openly inject their fixes -- as medics watch on.
This is InSite, North America's only legal safe drug injection center. A banner outside reads "InSite saves lives."
It's a facility where drug addicts can bring and use their drugs and not risk arrest.
Some of the addicts line up two or three times a day to use one of the 12 injection booths.
 
It these 'baby steps' - such as weed being decriminalized in two states, InSite possibly opening up locations in Toronto and Montreal, the Mexican government beginning to realize that their decision to join the war on drugs in 2006 was a really bad and tragic decision, etc. - which I'm hoping are helping drug policy reform gain some momentum.
 
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