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B.C. injection site exempt from drug laws: Supreme Court
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Sep 30, 2011
In a unanimous ruling, the court has ordered the federal government to allow the facility — called Insite — to continue operations under a special Health Canada exemption that allows illegal street drugs to be injected under the watch of health care providers… The fate of the supervised-injection site had been muddied ever since 2008, when the Conservative federal government refused to renew a Health Canada exemption that had permitted the facility to operate in contravention of criminal drug laws.
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