We all know the crack epidemic has long gone global, but Canada's Vancouver Eastside seems to be enabling their dope fiends.

The area also known as Vancouver's "Square Mile Of Vice" is home to the city's track which includes drug dealing, prostitution and homelessness... and peep this... houses the city's only residential Black community. The UK's Daily Mail reports that the city is now adopting a program to provide  free crack pipes to its drug-addicted population in an effort to stop the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B and C.

The $60-thousand 8-month trial is being conducted by The Vancouver Coastal Health Harm Reduction program.  60,000 kits are expected to be distributed at 5 different locations.

The Vancouver Coastal Health Harm Reduction program also states that  since the city's heroin users already receive clean  needles from the needle exchange program, they should try to create a safer inhalation program for those who are addicted to crack. They also hope to persuade users to enter into drug rehab programs since they'll have access to many of the addicts coming in to get free pipes as well as mouthpieces, filters, alcohol swabs, screens and push sticks.

The majority of users are males between the ages of 20 to 60 and Vancouver's Coastal Health Authority spokesperson Trudi Beutel says,

"It's about preventing more communicable diseases which land these people in hospital on a frequent basis and clog up emergency rooms."

There is some opposition though to the program  as David Brener,  director of the Drug Prevention Network of Canada, said,

"Programs like this ignore the problems of addiction.  All this does is aid and abet.  What we should do is put that same amount of money into treatment and prevention.  Because treatment and prevention work."

What are your thoughts on this controversial topic?  Is it enabling drug addicts or will these programs help to eventually detour them from drug use?  Comment and weigh in...

The topic of drugs in song lyrics has been around almost as long as music itself.

Over the years artists have gotten more creative about how they revel about illicit substances in their lines.

Using personification techniques, many artists have bypassed straightforward route (Bone Thugz N Harmony, “Buddah Lovers”) for a craftier angle (D'Angelo, “Brown Sugar”).

Here are 10 songs about mind-altering substances that were cleverly covered up as something else by the artists who performed them.

Investigators were sent to the home of convicted drug dealer, Michael Difalco, in Lakeland, Florida to conduct a raid. During the raid the team hit gold! They found marijuana, meth amphetamines, weapons, drug paraphernalia, $30,000 in stolen property and the most precious find of all; a Wii connected to a big screen TV! Within 20 minutes of arriving on the scene, two of the officers can be seen playing Wii bowling and even jumping up and down after bowling a strike.

The asanine bowling session lasted over an hour. What the two dimwits didn't see was Difalco's wireless camera that captured the entire thing on tape. Unfortunately for Difalco the footage will not be used to his advantage to question the accuracy of the raid. It could be used however to show how stupid and foolish some people with a badge act when they think no one's watching.

Here's video from The Today Show showing the incident: