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Canada Supreme Court Rules Vancouver's Safe Drug-Injection Site Can Stay Open
"Vancouver's Insite clinic, the only such safe-injection site for [people who use drugs] in North America, can stay open, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday in a landmark defeat for the federal government," Reuters reports. "The country's top court ... ruled unanimously that closing the site would threaten the lives of drug users and therefore violate their human rights," the news agency writes (Ljunggren, 9/30).
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