dope or not, you're not allowed to smoke anything on public transit so that is the immediate response.
As for smoking dope in front of the kids, NBD. IMO it's no different than having a beer or a shot of scotch....and certainly no worse than smoking a ciggie.......
As for Player and NIMBY, the problem is, no matter where you put it it will be in someone's backyard/neighbourhood.
Oshawa is a prime example. There is a methodone clinic downtown on (bank street I think?) and the local business association has taken the politicos to task for the problems it has created. PAYING customers are starting to avoid the local businesses due to the preponderance of undesireables hanging around, clogging up store door ways, trash everywhere, begging, etc. Do these businesses get a tax break because the politicians decided to put in a clinic that reduces their property value? Are the landlords giving the shopkeepers a discount on rent because of this? Nope. But they certainly will hammer the shopkeepers if they miss rent payments due to lack of sales....
My biggest beef with "do good" ideas like this is that often, the dregs of society are supported whereby the people who contribute to society are penalized. IMO that just isn't fair or right in any sense of the imagination. IMO the money being spent on something like this should be going to support single mothers who work 3 jobs, people who are leveraging every penny to open a store, business or ?......
Don't worry, I'm not just picking on addicts, I also think it is retarded to simply hand an UI cheque out to someone. I think what should happen is small businesses should (daily) submit a request to UI for help, and daily UI recipients should have to physically go to the office, be assigned a job for the day, go back to the office at the end of the day to collect their cheque. I was 100% behind the workfare program too but gasp, make people work for their benefits? Of course that program failed because you can't expect people to actually EARN........
As for smoking dope in front of the kids, NBD. IMO it's no different than having a beer or a shot of scotch....and certainly no worse than smoking a ciggie.......
As for Player and NIMBY, the problem is, no matter where you put it it will be in someone's backyard/neighbourhood.
Oshawa is a prime example. There is a methodone clinic downtown on (bank street I think?) and the local business association has taken the politicos to task for the problems it has created. PAYING customers are starting to avoid the local businesses due to the preponderance of undesireables hanging around, clogging up store door ways, trash everywhere, begging, etc. Do these businesses get a tax break because the politicians decided to put in a clinic that reduces their property value? Are the landlords giving the shopkeepers a discount on rent because of this? Nope. But they certainly will hammer the shopkeepers if they miss rent payments due to lack of sales....
My biggest beef with "do good" ideas like this is that often, the dregs of society are supported whereby the people who contribute to society are penalized. IMO that just isn't fair or right in any sense of the imagination. IMO the money being spent on something like this should be going to support single mothers who work 3 jobs, people who are leveraging every penny to open a store, business or ?......
Don't worry, I'm not just picking on addicts, I also think it is retarded to simply hand an UI cheque out to someone. I think what should happen is small businesses should (daily) submit a request to UI for help, and daily UI recipients should have to physically go to the office, be assigned a job for the day, go back to the office at the end of the day to collect their cheque. I was 100% behind the workfare program too but gasp, make people work for their benefits? Of course that program failed because you can't expect people to actually EARN........
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