title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. schu@aidslaw.ca
authors.forename: Sandra Ka Hon
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chu
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous