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Flat White

There is no such thing as a ‘safe’ injecting room

2 May 2023

4:30 AM

2 May 2023

4:30 AM

The Victorian Greens are introducing a bill to open the doors of government-run injecting rooms to pregnant women and children.

There is no such thing as a ‘safe injecting room’ because the substances people are injecting are, by decree of the state, unfit for consumption. That’s why the legislation is called ‘Drugs, Poisons, and Controlled Substances’.

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