My provincial government is full of crack heads...

The Ottawa Citizen reported that half of all crack users are tossing their city-provided crack pipes into the garbage.

There are so many things wrong with the above statement that it's hard to know where to start.

Each year, the Province of Ontario wastes $300,000 taxpayer dollars on an estimated 5,000 crack users in the Ottawa area to provide them with glass tubes in order for them to smoke crack without the risk of catching HIV/Hepatitis C. In what universe is this justifiable? Why are we, as a province wasting money on supporting the habit of these users instead of, say, helping break their addiction?!?

Yes, yes, I get the liberal heart bleeding nonsense that we want to stop them from being sick so that, just in case they clean up on their own, they return to society as a healthy, productive member of society instead of being infected with some fatal disease. Here's the thing: the bulk of the users, according to the article, are single, disabled men. Right, so they will likely not hold a lot of jobs a recovering crack addict would be likely to get. And, depending on their disability, they may not even be able to pass on a sexually transmitted disease easily.

So why are we just facilitating these people to continue their miserable existence as a drug-addicted, single, disabled but otherwise healthy lifestyle?!?

Sure, infection rates will go back up to the 64-some-percent they were, but the rates are still at 49%... So this very expensive plan doesn't seem to be doing much more than adding contaminated shards of glass to our sewers, streets, parks and landfills. What we need is a treatment program, funded by that $300,000 a year. It may only help a handful at a time, but once their addiction is broken, they are done, finished, over with! Instead we continue to allow people to get high on the government's money.

The only reason, aside from blatant government laziness in getting an addiction treatment center going, is that my provincial government is full of single, disabled men smoking their crack through Government of Ontario crack pipes.