Remember when vending machines used to carry things like chips, chocolate, and soda?
Ah, yes, the good ol' days ...
Welcome to 2024, where you can fulfill all your crack-smoking and opioid needs with the convenience of pressing a button on a vending machine.
Back in 2021, the Government of Canada invested around $3.5 million to fund vending machines in four cities that dispense a medical-grade opioid to help "prevent overdose deaths."
Today, drug-dispensing vending machines are popping up in even more cities across the country.
The first machine in Canada was set up in Vancouver (of course), followed by Victoria, B.C., London, ON, and Dartmouth, N.S. Now, the city of Brantford, ON, has just installed one.
Canadian cities are handing out drug supplies like it's no big deal. Just tap a screen, and boom, you've got free HIV self-test kits, meth pipes, naloxone, crack kits, and condoms.
Did anyone actually think this was a good idea?
Well, apparently, yes. With large investments from the federal government, leaders, who are supposed to help their citizens, think free drugs and drug supplies are better for the community rather than, oh, I don't know ... maybe getting these people the help they need.
The opioid crisis is hitting cities all across the country, but Brantford has one of the highest rates of hospital visits, overdoses, and drug-related deaths in Ontario. HIV cases in Canada are also on the rise.
The vending machine is set up at the SOAR (Support. Opportunity. Achieve. Resilience) Community Services office. It is accessible from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. on weekdays and 24/7 on weekends and holidays.
Prime time for junkies, and we all know we all need an extra pick-me-up on weekends and holidays.
DeAnna Renn, manager of healthy communities at the Brant County Health Unit, is proud to announce "Our Healthbox," the third vending machine like this in the province.
Yes, they really did name this dangerous opioid-dispencing free-for-all drug machine "OUR HEALTHBOX."
We will be restocking the machine regularly and we have a way to detect when the supplies are low so that we can restock.
It's been no secret that these types of machines have been and are currently being abused. There have been many reports made by people in the recovery sector that kids as young as 16 and 17 are getting their hands on the products from these machines. Last year, Jessica Cooksey, director of operations with the Last Door Recovery Centre, told Global News that kids are taking public transit to access a "safer" recreational alternative.
B.C. Liberal mental health and addictions critic Elenore Sturko stated that the safe supply system requires better management.
There needs to be oversight so that any drugs that are being publicly funded and supplied, addictive drugs, that there are safety measures in place and other ways of having that supervised to make sure they're not falling into the wrong hands.
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It's good people know how to access a safe supply, but it also exposes people to have access that wouldn't necessarily have readily access.
I mean, what else are they excepting??
Canada is seriously playing with fire. Provinces have decriminalized open drug use and procession, and "safe injection" sites are already all over the place, but now these vending machines are a new level of madness.
But, you know, it is Canada. And with their assisted suicide program I'm surprised we're not seeing another type of vending machine.
It's getting pretty tough not to get into conspiratory territory ... because, from where I am standing, it really looks like they're trying to get us all hooked on hard drugs.
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