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applegrove

(123,130 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2023, 10:42 PM Jan 2023

B.C. will begin a three-year decriminalization experiment, allowing drug users 18 and over to carry

B.C. will begin a three-year decriminalization experiment, allowing drug users 18 and over to carry up to 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA.

It’s an experiment that’s likely to influence drug policy across Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/01/30/bcs-decriminalization-experiement-is-about-to-begin-and-other-jurisdictions-are-watching.html

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Something has to be done. 6 people a day are dying in British Columbia from overdoses.

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B.C. will begin a three-year decriminalization experiment, allowing drug users 18 and over to carry (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2023 OP

They haven't been arresting people with small amounts since 2020. applegrove Jan 2023 #1

I'm astonished at the number of BC residents who think this is a bad thing. Fiendish Thingy Jan 2023 #2

It is a whole generation who are going down. Those people applegrove Jan 2023 #3

applegrove

(123,130 posts)

1. They haven't been arresting people with small amounts since 2020.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2023, 11:34 PM

Jan 2023

But they were connfiscating the drugs. Here they don't confiscate if it is an amount the size of a quarter. Hopefully the addicts need to steal less and get to a safe injection site.

Fiendish Thingy

(18,520 posts)

2. I'm astonished at the number of BC residents who think this is a bad thing.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:13 AM

Jan 2023

One guy posted “just stop reviving them with narcan- problem solved!”

Many, many refuse to see addiction as anything but a bad choice.

SMH

applegrove

(123,130 posts)

3. It is a whole generation who are going down. Those people

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:33 AM

Jan 2023

who say things like that will depend on this agegroup to fund their pensions and cpp when they retire and get old. I knew a girl on methadone. She was a great employee at a call center. She would just step out to the pharmacy at lunch then go on about her productive life. Crime has been reduced by this policy. Less crime, more people to pay into the system when they have a healthy recovery. Win win

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