[Pointe-St-Charles' community pharmacy.]

It was in Pointe St-Charles that was born the first community pharmacy, holding to the objectives of collective responsability for physical and mental health promoted by the health clinic of the same area. The pharmacy seeks to become a means to combatting capitalist system oppression. With a simple material organization, a policy of lowest-price buying, the abolition of a profit margin and information and consciousness raising with regard to the abusive use of medication, the pharmacy hopes to reach the population and facilitate, a regrouping, leading to a collective denunciation! of the exploitation of pharmaceutical companies, seen as able representatives of the present system. Three such pharmacies are now operating in the metropolitan area: in Pointe St. Charles, St. Henri, and at Cooprix in Rosemont; each is concerned with attaining the above-mentioned objectives and each works towards the development of a greater autonomy, both individual and collective, of the population.