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 ...

Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at reducing the transmission of diseases such as hepatitis C. The program, part of ...

Crack addicts in Ottawa will continue receiving clean, free crack pipes next year. The Ontario government agreed to fund the program even though the city doesn't support it anymore. David Jensen, a ...

(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 ...