Back in the late 1950s’ and early 1960s’, Britain was regarded as a junkies paradise by Canadian drug users and more than a few settled in the London area to take advantage of Britain’s liberal drug laws which at that time allowed drugs such as heroin and cocaine to be prescribed by GPs’ in the treatment of addiction. Changes in the British drug treatment system stopped the influx and Canadian junkies stayed where they were, suffering under more or less the same draconian drugs laws as their neighbours over the border in the states. Now the same winds of change that have blown through Europe are touching Canada. The Canadian Federal Government are proposing a Swiss type heroin trial, under which about 125 addicts in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are to be offered heroin scripts. Users will have to inject their drugs under medical supervision and will be able to receive heroin twice – or three times if they wish – in a day. So what, you might say? Big deal, who wants to attend a hospital to have a dig , even if it is 100% pure shit. The point is, however, that when a country like Canada, with the US drug warriors breathing right down the back of its neck, starts thinking about prescribing heroin, then attitudes are beginning to change. Even if those changes are very small.