COMMENTARY

We are familiar with harm reduction as a subset of our drug response, aimed at reducing immediate harms among heavy users and addicted persons.' However, today many parties are promoting harm reduction as a new ensign for national and provincial drug policies. Its advocates promote a liberalized view of drugs, and changes in drug laws.2,3 This promotion is not following a process of open debate.

Harm reduction advocates advance three overlapping and convoluted arguments: 1) that the main reason drugs are illegal is a "moral panic,"' that drug laws cause more problems than do ...

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