If the day should come that any city in Colorado provides deadly addictive drugs and a place to use them, rational adults will hold the politicians accountable for the ensuing addictions and deaths that will undoubtedly result.

We’ve heard the argument that has advocates calling this a “safe” idea. If consumers find drugs and clean needles at a city-sponsored drug den, they won’t use dirty needles in a back alley. Trained professionals will be on hand to assist them when they overdose.

Those arguments, of course, fall apart when we consider the fact people will develop addictions at municipal drug houses and carry them around for the rest of their lives. They won’t always be near the “safe” government drug dealers in Denver. In fact, we predict most users who get hooked won’t live close enough to return routine fixes.

This experiment has been done and the results are not good.

? In Canada, British Columbia’s overdose deaths have increased by more than 725 percent since Vancouver opened its first injection site in 2003.

? Overdose deaths are up 260 percent among British Columbians ages 10-18.

? The number of heroin users in Vancouver climbed from 4,700 in 2000 to more than 7,300 in 2017 at one of the city’s six injection sites.