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Illegal drug users should remain behind bars

[caption id="attachment_2074" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo Credit: Daniele Devoti[/caption] Picture yourself walking to a local pharmacy to purchase MDMA, cocaine, heroin, LSD, marijuana, amphetamines, or any of the other common illegal substances stated under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act. If these substances were made available under pharmaceutical supervision, would this really improve public health? Bruce Haden, an award-winning Vancouver-based architect, argued at a TED conference March 18 that we should decriminalize hard drugs in favour of a different system of regulation. Haden claims that “a strategy guided by public health practices that makes substances carefully available, but does not promote…

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