Vancouver home to Canada's first crackpipe vending machines

[CaseyJones]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vancouv...#ixzz2spaXdqtr

Vancouver is the home to Canada's first-ever crackpipe vending machines, which were installed in the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside in a bid to curb the spread of disease among drug users.

Portland Hotel Society's Drug Users Resource Centre operates two of the machines. They dispense Pyrex crackpipes for just 25 cents.

"For us, this was about increasing access to safer inhalation supplies in the Downtown Eastside,” Kailin See, director of the DURC, told CTV Vancouver.

She said the pipes are very durable and less likely to chip and cut drug users' mouths, which helps stop the spread communicable diseases including HIV and hepatitis C.

[eduardo89]

Typical Vancouver. Downtown East Side is such a $#@!hole.

[Danke]

Typical Vancouver. Downtown East Side is such a $#@!hole.

But the girls there, the girls!

[eduardo89]

But the girls there, the girls!

(Photo of an actual DTES resident)

[brushfire]

(Photo of an actual DTES resident)

"everyone knows its windy" /breaking_bad

[Danke]

(Photo of an actual DTES resident)

must have been at the wrong bar.

My experience.

[Petar]

must have been at the wrong bar.

My experience.

They both have the same ears.

[Danke]

They both have the same ears.

Perfectionist!

[oyarde]

Everything costs too much , it rains probably 160 , 180 days a year and it is dark about all the time in the winter, sun goes down hours before dinner .

[eduardo89]

Everything costs too much , it rains probably 160 , 180 days a year and it is dark about all the time in the winter, sun goes down hours before dinner .

All true but I'd still consider moving back there, though.