Harm reduction strategies in Canada, such as Safe Injection Sites (SIS), have proven to be an effective strategy for controlling the effects of drug use injection drugs (Small et al. , 2011). The proven effectiveness of these strategies makes governments' "war on drugs" and criminalization strategies ideological. The Toronto Board of Health meeting that took place on July 10, 2013, at which public health officials, community organizations, former injection drug users (IDUs) and their families spoke in favor of opening a SIS. Furthermore, the Conservative government recently started a “Keep Heroine out of our Backyards” campaign and created Bill C-65 to make it more difficult to open the SIS. I want to review several newspaper articles from the Toronto Sun and the History and Literature Review: War on Drugs, Harm Reduction, and Insite. The war on drugs, which began in the United States, has spread to many countries around the world, and increasingly to Canada (Odeh, 2013). The war on drugs has been shown to be an ineffective way to minimize or even control drug use and possession (Odeh, 2013). This begs the question of why the war on drugs is still being waged with increasing force. The United States, which began the war on drugs, now has the highest per capita prison population in the world, with 730 per 100,000 people incarcerated (Odeh, 2013). Furthermore, more than half of these people in prison are serving sentences for drug crimes (Odeh, 2013). Despite costing taxpayers a lot of money, with no results; drug consumption and quantity in the United States has not decreased, the war on drugs has not stopped. While some Americans, even very conservative ones (CBC, 2011) have come to the conclusion...... half of the paper ......eller, J., Moore, D., Tyndall, M., Wood, E. , Kerr, T. (2011). Injecting drug users' access to a supervised injection facility in Vancouver, Canada: The influence of operational policies and local drug culture. QualitativeHealth Research, 21(6), 743-756.Smith, C.B.R. (2012). Harm reduction as an anarchist practice: A user's guide to capitalism and addiction in North America. Critical Public Health, 22(2), 209-221.White, C. L. (2001). Beyond professional harm reduction: Empowering multi-marginal illicit drug users to engage in solidarity politics to end the war on illicit drug users. Drug and Alcohol Review, 20,449-458.Wood, E., Tyndall, M.W., Montaner, T.K. (2006). Summary of results of the evaluation of a safer injection pilot plant under medical supervision. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 175(11), 1399-1404.