B.C. Court of Appeal upholds supervised injection site's right to operate.

Abstract

On 15 January 2010, the British Columbia Court of Appeal held that Insite, North America's first supervised injection site, was a provincial undertaking that did not undermine the federal goals of protecting health or eliminating the market that drives drug-related offences. As such, the Court held, the drug possession and trafficking provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) did not apply to it.