SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Despite opposition from San Francisco officials, a program to provide free crack pipes to drug users has now distributed some 200 pipes since it began in March. When news of ...

TORONTO – Crack addicts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will soon be able to pick up free, clean crack pipes from their local health authority as part of the city’s harm-reduction strategy to curb ...

(Tomorrow’s city editorial page will have something on the subject, too.) What interests me this afternoon is the political force that made it happen. Simply, suburban and rural Ottawa ganged up on ...