Cities defiant after Justice Department's threat on 'supervised injection sites'

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2. Britain, Netherlands, Vancouver and other places have some success with this approach...

although the same arguments against it still pop up. The arguments are largely moral-- don't subsidize a bad habit.

The arguments for it are largely pragmatic-- it works. It reduces deaths and injury from bad smack and dirty needles. It reduces crime by allowing addicts to work for a living without the daily scramble for a fix. Well, it just works and has far fewer downsides than blowing money away trying to stop addiction by law or methadone.