Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs
Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety.
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety.
The Canadian province of British Columbia is reversing its policy of allowing the open use of hard drugs in public.
Premier David Eby said Friday that police will soon have the power again to enforce drug use laws in all public places, including hospitals, restaurants, parks, and beaches.
It brings to an end a much-criticized pilot program that allowed the personal use of some illegal drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, heroin, morphine, and fentanyl.
The program launched in January last year, to remove the stigma associated with drug use that keeps people from seeking help, was supposed to run for three years.
When it’s decriminalized without treatment, mental health and other social supports of course it going to be a failure for everyone.
41I dont think they made a uturn, they did however correct the course. Drugs are still decriminalized but police will have the ability to kick drug users out of playgrounds and beaches.
31Yeah, this seems pretty reasonable to me. The problem with drug criminalization is putting people in prison for using, not kicking them out of where they happen to be using if it isn't their property.
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These idiots try to follow Portugal's example without really understanding what went on with the country during the 80s/90s. I bet it's still not a perfect approach.
9It would be really nice if we'd decriminalize soft drugs anyway. I mean mushrooms actually help addiction, and we have a lot of people struggling with addiction yet mushrooms are illegal mostly because Nixon was scared Tim Learey and other hippies would end his political career.
Which of course Nixon did himself so why are the mushrooms still illegal?
Maybe they are legal in Canada I didn't see in the article. It only mentioned very hard drugs and cannabis as far as I could tell.
Still, I blame Nixon. He got the whole UN to back the psychotropic drug resolution so he could continue his war in Vietnam
6God damn it all I want is fucking safe cocaine and the adult choice to fucking put it in my body
2all I want is fucking safe cocaine
Well you're not going to get it. That's like asking for safe cigarettes.
Asking for unadulterated cocaine makes sense. But you're not going to get something that can cause chronic health issues (you can argue the specific issues but strong stimulants as a whole are generally not safe when taken regularly and recreationally) that is safe.
9You can still do it. Just not out in public.
Fact is that BC is being used as a dumping ground for the rest of North America's people problems
6To be honest I think there are safer stimulants than cocaine. Amphetamines and methylphenidate are probably better for you. I agree with you that a safe supply is better though, and generally agree that it's a personal choice.
By the looks of it they aren't banning use of drugs in private spaces either. Only in public ones. Which honestly is somewhat reasonable given how some people act on drugs.
1Yeah I noticed the in public part that makes sense I don't need to do my cocaine out in public haha but also yeah I think I'm going to trust cocaine a lot faster than I would trust meth or amphetamine haha that's just fucking crazy what the hell haha as long as your cocaine's pure you're fine.
I do about 2 to 3 g a day of pure stuff and it's basically just a coffee replacement
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I have been living in Vancouver's downtown east side (de facto epicentre of drug use) for nearly a decade and this is the first I've heard of the programme. If it's been on for a while there's been no change. If it get reversed there will still be no change
2Idiotic frame-of-reference:
2.5g of fentanyl could kill .. what, ALL of BC's total population??
moronic.
You limit it to number-of-doses, if you're doing that kind of thing:
something like "a person can legally carry enough drugs to use for the next 4 days" or something, with drugs of different strengths having different limits.
Same as the volume of light beer required to put a person "over the legal limit" is drastically different from the volume of alcool, right?
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