During his speech, Clement also told the meeting of doctors his government is preparing to roll out an anti-drug campaign for young people. "Canada has not run a serious or significant anti-drug campaign for almost 20 years and the messages young people have been receiving during the past several years have been confusing and conflicting, to say the least," he said. "We are very concerned about the damage and pain that drugs cause families and we intend to reverse the trend toward vague, ambiguous messaging that has characterized Canadian attitudes in the recent past," Clement said.

According to the United Nations office of Drugs and Crime, Clement said 16.8 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 15 and 64 smoke marijuana.

He said that's the highest rate of any country in the world [which is false] and the figure is almost equal to the number of tobacco smokers in Canada. http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248080" title="http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248080" target="_blank"http://www.thestar.com/News/a...

About 24 studies in top international journals, including the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, have suggested the safe-injection site reduces the chance of people contracting blood-borne infections such as HIV because people are given clean needles to get their fix. "We've said that we want to make sure that the research has been comprehensive," Clement said Monday. He said that since he extended the exemption to keep the clinic open until the end of the year, more research has been conducted. "Some of it has been questioning of the research that has already taken place and questioning the methodology of those associated with Insite and the research that they've done," he said.  Clement said the public and academic debate surrounding the safe-injection site is a good thing and will provide input for the government's final decision on the facility. Safe-injection sites also exist in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Norway and Luxembourg.

Vancouver Sun’s Peter McKnight reveals the only “study” critical of Insite to be a complete fraud.    & nbsp;

The trouble, however, is that this most recent "study" isn't, and the "journal" it was published in isn't, either. Rather, the "journal" -- which goes by the impressive name, The Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice -- is a non-peer-reviewed website registered to the Drug Free America Foundation, not a scientific or medical journal.

Unlike real journals, which contain real studies written by real scientists, this "journal" includes a total of seven articles over its two issues, and all of those articles are commentaries rather than scientific studies.

And as we all know, anyone today can start a website, slap some opinion pieces on it and call it a journal. But that doesn't make it one, and it certainly doesn't put it in the league of The Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine.

Similarly, the "study," by Colin Mangham, is an opinion piece funded by the RCMP -- as if the force doesn't have enough problems right now -- not a scientific study. There are no hypotheses tested, no research design, no statistical analyses, only a poorly written and poorly argued commentary on Insite.

This is no surprise, since Mangham is "director of research" for the Drug Prevention Network of Canada, a group of drug prohibitionists led by former Conservative MP Randy White, who praised Mangham's "study" because it "balanced" -- there's that word again -- reports about Insite.

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