Police were called to investigate drug use by residents of one of Quebec's largest psychiatric hospitals. Some of the 800 patients at the Robert Giffard Hospital apparently like to use marijuana. Despite the progressive nature of this hospital (it recently instituted a pilot program that allows patients to have sex in their rooms) their 60-member security force doesn't like to find small quantities of hashish or marijuana in patients' rooms. (Montreal Gazette).
The guards either smell the illicit drugs or notice that a patient is stoned. How it's possible for the guards to distinguish the difference between the effects of psychiatric drugs and the effects of hash, is not explained.
Prescribed drugs are forced upon the patients (until they eventually become dependent on the medications). But a street drug that a patient might choose to ingest is technically against the law and so there's a punishment. Someone caught smoking marijuana is punished by not being allowed into the hospital's (cigarette) smoking areas.
Hmm. It's ok for the patients to be experimented on with psychiatric drugs, it's ok for them to commit slow suicide with cigarettes but it's not ok to puff a little weed?
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