I’m a Pundit

I have just read a story on Fox News about how the Canadian Government will be giving out free heroin to addicts.  Now from a generic viewpoint this has been put in place to reduce HIV, overdoses, death and crime. 

Ok I can see where they are coming from, give them free clean heroin and you remove the problems.

I have another idea, for every convicted felon for burglary we should give a government stipend of $5000, this way they wont need to rob people and they wont injure themselves when they are ‘working’ 

Maybe they should set up an online application for people who were thinking of becoming criminals ‘sign up now and we will send you money not to commit crimes!’

You could have options to change your stipend, 

‘Will you or do you

a) Rob houses for upto $10,000 dollars per month 

b) Rob or steal Items of upto $5,000 dollars value per month

c) Mug homies of other gangs yo innit for a poppin $1000 a mo in that right mutha f*ker’ 

Do you kinda see what I’m getting at here?

Of course the guy leading this campaign seems absolutely oblivious as to how ineffective this campaign will be, and even more worryingly the Vancouver chief of police no less is supporting this because, and I quote 

“I’m not a medical expert, this is not my field. I’m an expert in public safety,” Graham said. “And if this will help reduce the crime rate — I’m all for it.”

If I may say so someone who is meant to be in charge of public safety has a very short sighted view of what will happen if the number of heroin addicts increases. (Which will happen if there is no removal of dependancies, fewer deaths etc, Darwin explains the survival of the fittest scenario!)

This program is in my eyes abominable, I do not know how any government, let alone the fairly level headed Canadian government can condone it.

written by Oli \\ tags: Addiction, Drug Use, Government, Heroin, Methadone, Mistake

The US Government has announced it will be more than tripling its investment against HIV to 50 billion dollars over the next five years

Currently the US governmetn suports life saving treatment for 1.5 million HIV Sufferers a year, this should become 2.5 Million with the prevention of 12 million new cases with the new funding according to government reports.

I applaud the money being put into this, saving the lives of millions is a cause that cannot be denied and difficult to put a price on. Whether or not it will be effective or not hower is a different matter. Since they are claiming to prevent 12 million new cases they will obviously be taking the contraception and marketing approach, but Africa and Vietnam are very primal places. Despite the attempts to promote condom use in Africa it is still a fairly rare occurence, and many people there are still uneducated as to what HIV and AIDs really are.

Either way now would be an outstanding time to buy shares in condom companies,$50 billion worth of rubbers, thats a lot of fun!

written by Oli \\ tags: Africa, AIDs, America, Donation, HIV, Vietnam