Justice committee  I think some of the things that are solutions, Canada is already doing, such as having a safe injection site and experimenting with heroin maintenance, which has worked successfully in different parts of Europe. I think that is one way of reducing the black market demand for drug

Justice committee  —of the people in prison there for drugs to almost half of all prisoners. If you ask the public what they think is the most important crime, rarely will they put drugs in the top five. So I don't understand how, in the effort to reduce violence and criminality, you would follow

Justice committee  Thank you. I want to respond quickly to three points that have been made in discussion here. First of all, I have to disabuse people of the idea that Obama would ever have been arrested and subject to mandatory minimums. He used drugs in the U.S. during the period of mandatory

Justice committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Deborah Small, and I'm speaking on behalf of Break the Chains. We're a national grassroots advocacy organization committed to educating people living in communities disproportionately affected by common drug policies about the various negati