TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Government-funded fending machines are dispensing drug supplies and contraception just meters away from a school.
In Toronto, Ontario, Casey House, a government funded organization, has put up vending machines that offer condoms, free needles, pipes, naloxone, and other supplies for drug use, which has led to increased violence in the neighborhood.
“Walk by Casey House on Huntley St. and you’ll see two new harm reduction dispensing machines on the east side of the building,” Casey House announced. “SASSY (safely access services and supplies for you) provides free equipment and help people access local resources; this includes [so-called] sexual health supplies, clean needles, pipes, naloxone, and other supplies for safer drug use.”
Since the vending machines were put up in 2024, local residents have said that their neighborhood has become overrun with drug addicts.
”I don’t feel safe,” local resident of 15 years Denise Barrowman, told Juno News. “You can’t go for a walk anymore… you never know what state of mind they’re in… it’s so unpredictable.”
Drug addicts have put up tents behind a formerly popular Toronto apartment building, where they spend their days loitering, harassing those passing by, and consuming drugs.
Additionally, Casey House, which receives the majority of its funding from the government, offers supervised consumption (injection) services from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. inside the facility to all people living with or at risk of HIV.
Furthermore, the vending machines and so-called “safe” injection site is within 200 meters of Monsignor Fraser College Catholic school, in violation of Ontario regulations.
This is not the first vending machine in Canada to offer drug supplies. As LifeSiteNews previously reported, in 2024, the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital was exposed for distributing free crack pipes and snorting kits at a vending machine outside its emergency room.
The distribution of the kits comes after the Liberal “safe-supply” program was deemed such a disaster in British Columbia that the province asked former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to recriminalize drugs in public spaces. Nearly two weeks later, the Trudeau government announced it would “immediately” end the province’s drug program.
“Safe supply” is a euphemism for government-provided drugs given to addicts under the assumption that a more controlled batch of narcotics reduces the risk of overdose. Critics of the policy say that giving addicts drugs only enables their behavior, puts the public at risk, disincentivizes recovery from addiction and has not reduced – and sometimes has even increased – overdose deaths when implemented.
Beginning in early 2023, Trudeau’s federal policy in effect decriminalized hard drugs on a trial-run basis in British Columbia.
Under the policy, the federal government allowed people within the province to possess up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs without criminal penalty. Selling drugs remained a crime.
Since its implementation, the province’s drug policy has been widely criticized, especially after it was found that the province broke three different drug-related overdose records in the first month the new law was in effect.
The effects of decriminalizing hard drugs in various parts of Canada have been exposed in Aaron Gunn’s recent documentary Canada is Dying and in the U.K. Telegraph journalist Steven Edginton’s mini-documentary Canada’s Woke Nightmare: A Warning to the West.
