Approximately Oct 27th 2025 plus a couple weeks??
Hard drugs to be decriminalized in British Columbia
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"Eby told reporters Monday that other jurisdictions can learn from its experience with decriminalization to date. He said there must be resources in place to address public drug use."
Noooo shit Sherlock. Funny how the "let's make all drugs legal" crowd forgot that's what Portugal did even after using Portugal as an example of decriming hard drugs. They didn't turn it into a free-for-all and they sure as fuck weren't handing out free pharma-grade crank to addicts.
Problem is, now that the genie is out of the bottle all the little dimwit activists will get all pissy and demand things remain as they are so as not to cause harm to the addicts, to hell with the general population at large.
Noooo shit Sherlock. Funny how the "let's make all drugs legal" crowd forgot that's what Portugal did even after using Portugal as an example of decriming hard drugs. They didn't turn it into a free-for-all and they sure as fuck weren't handing out free pharma-grade crank to addicts.
Problem is, now that the genie is out of the bottle all the little dimwit activists will get all pissy and demand things remain as they are so as not to cause harm to the addicts, to hell with the general population at large.
Cut off the Naloxone. How many times does someone need to resurrected before we say "fuck it"? 10? 20? 30 times?
The really wacko part of this whole debacle is that druggies are allowed to do whatever they want, anywhere they want. But is law abiding taxpayers are not allowed to have a beer, or smoke a cigarette in the same locations. Including in ERs.Anywho…It is too early to draw conclusions about drug decriminalization, the federal addictions and mental health minister suggested Monday, after British Columbia asked Ottawa to scale back its pilot to help curb concerns over public drug use.
In her first public remarks since B.C., made its request, Ya'ara Saks noted that the province is only a year into its three-year pilot project, which began in January 2023.
To make it happen, Health Canada issued an exemption to federal drug laws decriminalizing possession of small amounts of certain illegal drugs, including heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.
"We're still evaluating the data," the minister said.
But on Friday, B.C. Premier David Eby asked Health Canada to amend that exemption order to recriminalize the use of those drugs in public spaces such as hospitals and restaurants.
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While adults would still be allowed to use such drugs in private, they could be arrested for using them in public.
The request followed months of backlash from residents, health-care workers, police and conservative politicians about the project's effect on public safety.
Eby told reporters Monday that other jurisdictions can learn from its experience with decriminalization to date.
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He said there must be resources in place to address public drug use.
"There are important lessons to be learned on where we are to date, that don't need to be repeated," he said.
"Addressing the public's concern around public use is critical to having their understanding about taking a health approach to addiction. Balancing those two things is core, and I hope other jurisdictions take that lesson and don't repeat our mistakes."
British Columbia is asking Ottawa to roll back decriminalization of possession of small amounts of narcotics, led by NDP Premier David Eby — who fought for legalized supervised-injection sites in Vancouver with the Pivot Legal Society, before becoming executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, where he advanced similar causes.
Decriminalization was something B.C. itself requested, but a lunatic judge decided last year that “decriminalization” means people must be allowed to consume illicit, hard drugs wherever and whenever they want: playgrounds, splash pads, bus shelters.
The complainant in that court case was the Harm Reduction Nurses Association, represented by the Pivot Legal Society.
Chris Selley: The notwithstanding clause can save B.C. from its decriminalization chaos — National Post
A judge says addicts must be allowed to use wherever they want. That's the sort of lunacy the notwithstanding clause was designed forapple.news
Many of these dimwits have managed to get high paying government jobs. One of the many benefits of quota over merit.
Aside from that, there is merit in not arresting users for enough drugs for personal consumption. Arresting importers and dealers and holding them in jail also has merit, as does seizing all their assets. The real problem is that our government never followed through with the rest of the plans. Mandatory treatment and reintegration into normal society was supposed to happen, until some far left judge decided that was against junkies rights.
Far as I know, the record is 4 times in one day. But that is an unofficial number from within EHS.
So THAT'S why California is such a shit hole.
Absolutely. It's hell on Earth. Worse'n the Black Hole of Calcutta.
Almost have to have a needle in each arm for that. One with drugs and the other with naloxone.
Without provincial approval or input, the Trudeau government has set up 16 sites in Ontario listed on the federal government’s website as offering so-called safer supply. In these programs, addicts are given hydromorphone, a pharmaceutical grade opioid that is supposed to help deal with their addiction by replacing dangerous street drugs with clean drugs.
As Ford pointed out to Trudeau, too often these prescribed drugs are sold or traded on the street for harder drugs like fentanyl with the hydromorphone pills being sold to new and younger users.
“It also indicated that diversion is contributing to higher youth opioid use rates and has led to individuals in successful treatment services relapsing due to easy access,” Ford wrote to Trudeau.
It’s unclear what the Trudeau government’s response to this letter will be – they have been wedded to safe supply and liberalizing drug laws for years. As the side effects of their policies became evident over the last year or more, they have denied problems even exist.
But nothing could be further from the truth if you look at the facts.
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In the first three months of this year, B.C. had 572 drug overdose deaths, more than the 529 they had in all of 2015 or the 370 recorded in 2014. In 2023, when the province, with federal approval, moved to decriminalize all hard drugs to lower drug deaths, the B.C. recorded a record 2,551 overdose deaths.
That’s more than all of Ontario despite B.C. having a population that is one-third of Ontario’s.
As Ford pointed out to Trudeau, too often these prescribed drugs are sold or traded on the street for harder drugs like fentanyl with the hydromorphone pills being sold to new and younger users.
“It also indicated that diversion is contributing to higher youth opioid use rates and has led to individuals in successful treatment services relapsing due to easy access,” Ford wrote to Trudeau.
It’s unclear what the Trudeau government’s response to this letter will be – they have been wedded to safe supply and liberalizing drug laws for years. As the side effects of their policies became evident over the last year or more, they have denied problems even exist.
But nothing could be further from the truth if you look at the facts.
LILLEY: Ford tells Trudeau Ontario won't follow B.C.'s lead on drugs — Toronto Sun
Premier fires off letter to PM demanding review of federal drug policy in Ontario.
That’s more than all of Ontario despite B.C. having a population that is one-third of Ontario’s.
In the short time Kamilah’s father was given to speak, he told parliamentarians, “She liked the pills, and the ease that she was able to get the pills was unbelievable. She would go to the local park, and she would have what they call ‘safe supply’ within five minutes.” He recounted how a local dealer would travel to Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside to procure the opioids, which, according to Kamilah’s friends, would then be resold to them in Port Coquitlam, a suburban town 40 minutes away.
“It is so easy for these kids to get their hands on it, because we don’t monitor it in B.C. We just hand out the pills and hope that the addicts will take them and not sell them for the drugs that they want,” he told members at the hearing.
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“It is so easy for these kids to get their hands on it, because we don’t monitor it in B.C. We just hand out the pills and hope that the addicts will take them and not sell them for the drugs that they want,” he told members at the hearing.
Adam Zivo: Liberals and NDP have no time for your daughter's tragic opioid story — National Post
Instead of creating motions to address Sword's concerns, they coldly put forward unrelated motions
The government needs help with its packaging. How about a nice, bright, colourful label with cute li'l cartoon critters and calling it "Hero-FUN!"
Yeah, they banned that. You should see what a package of cigarettes looks like in Canada.
I have. Just last week. Y'all suck at advertising, or you're not spending enough on bribes.
Bribes is such a harsh term. How about donations to see things differently.