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B.C. becomes the first province in Canada to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of certain illicit drugs.

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I have seen stupid white NDP women, give free needles & free heroine to drug users. Shooting up the arms behind a church. Right where children are taking the bus. Disgusting Mississauga. All they need to do, is have a one hour meeting of nonses talk with her. Free drugs for all!

This country is going in the wrong direction!

Vancouver is a wasteland

I'll follow the data and science and applaud any course which saves lives and gets people off drugs. However, this strikes me as very unlikely to do that.

Now that’s criminal!

Fake news cbc !!

What, free hard drugs and a place to do them, but don’t have more than 2 drinks a week. Where is the mandatory programs and dry out clinics? That is the hard work and don’t expect liberals or NDP to do that, image is all they do, not work. That’s for others to be taxed

Good. Now all the trash can move there.

Finally..recognizing the failure of 40 years of drug policy. Bravo BC BritishColumbia

I have sold about a thousand bucks worth of cocaine so far.

Criminals are laughing. When weed was legalized, the govt thought they would stop it's crime. It only helped the druglords. Now this. Canada is on the wrong path.

BC was the first to introduce harm reduction strategies like free needles, safe injection sites, methadone clinics, free drugs and decriminalization. And as a result B.C. has the highest per capita infection and death rates in Canada. Well done !

Decriminalization of illicit drugs is anti humanity, anti common sense, anti family and anti society. BC is ruined by the woke and worthless so call progressive, which are radical leftists.

This isn’t even current news it’s a week old it’s pretty stale I wonder why this propaganda would keep popping up in peoples newsfeeds it’s almost as if they want you to run out and buy some cocaine or some heroin

Sure, don't try to help people. Just Make it easier for them to stay in a drugged up zombie vegetable state their whole lives. Not just Vancouver downtown Eastside anymore. All of BC. This is decades and decades of failed liberal policies. You're killing these people.

ABDanielleSmith, now would be a good time to exempt Alberta from all federal drug laws. Remember the pothead in Ottawa made pot legal. I would put nothing past the liberals. Decriminalization of hard drugs is depraved. At least in jail, they have a chance to get sober. cdnpoli

Unfortunately, no money or laws are for recovery and support for addiction.

less than a band aid solution

Should help thin out the population a little bit.

Ridiculous..

Now all we need is way more mental health workers for the people who use drugs as a coping mechanism for deeper troubles.

In a concurrent move, let’s make insulin free for all Canadians and make narcan available only by subscription.

People keep mentioning the Portugul model will work here also. What Canada and B.C have implemented is so far from the model of Portugal. Inform yourself. God help us.

And how will they enforce this? First they make hard drugs legal but consumption in a public place is illegal. However to be under the influence of drugs is legal. This is like a scene from a bad movie

BC = BringCocaine

That is going to be a sh!t show for the police and decent Canadians !

and you love it. everything the wef predicted you happen...because you let them do. you will end hell like all the tyrants who work for them. no skies for the liers

Stupid move. All drugs should be banned and junkies send to labour camps for ten years.

Now there's some progressive thinking folks 🙄🙄

This will literally change nothing. The police are already WAY to busy to bother busting users with possession of small amounts. It's fine, but it won't help the larger problems one bit.

crack open a beer in public. get fined?

this should end well

All the righteous Christians who are experts in addiction will be having meltdowns moralizing and doom saying

I like it. People should never be thrown in jail for possession of any kind, it accomplishes nothing. Throw the book at the dealers but leave the users alone

I guess they don’t have enough problems

Lol, the Portland experience oart deux. Oregon decriminalized years ago and just had a 34% increase in od deaths last year. This is not the answer. Treatment of addiction and mental illness is a better direction.

Plastic straws/cutlery/bags- insane level end of days bad. Cocaine/fentanyl/heroin/speed are perfectly legal. What a shit show BC is. What’s next- they can run around with a needle and stab anyone they want cuz their addiction isn’t their fault. NoAccountability.

Canada is becoming a joke

i am sure that will work out well.

It is disgusting to see people nowadays living in a Tent City environment. Rather than opening the floodgates to Migrants shouldn't Canadians be accommodated first.

Really a bad move keep drugs AWAY from them!!!

Speed the collapse.

≪ the threat of administrative penalties like fines … deters people from accessing overdose prevention sites ≫ But banning use in public spaces should motivate them to go to sites where they can use legally. woof

Trudeau will be heading to tolfino more for his legal fix I guess

Welcome to hell

Plastic straws are illegal. Heroin is not. Is that BC's new license plate?

Now do Alberta. Be nice for them all to shut up for a while

This is enabling. Not to mention fatal n dangerous. But it's not a surprise as we r in the great reset n govts n organizations r doing everything at once now to kill off ppl. Canada is so shameful atm

Does this include Starbucks?

Well at least the danger of choking on plastic bags is gone, thank God to the plastic bag ban. Enjoy your fentanyl though.

W H Y !

BC is a leader. We had the first safe injection site, a huge success. Copied by many cities across Canada. Now we will try this, based on the Portugal model (where it has been a huge success). And if it works, the rest of Canada will follow. cdnpoli decriminalization

With no improvement with treatment or penalties for distribution. What could possibly go wrong.

This is excellent news. I've always wanted to be a no-hope junkie stealing from cars and mugging old ladies for booze money and now here my chance. What a wonderful time to be alive.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well I guess we can only hope this helps, and doesn’t entice more new users.

The beginning to its end

Another type of government assisted suicide

Lower mainland BC gives the rest of normal BC a bad name

It’s going great so far gang. Keep it up. Family AND business friendly. It can only get better from here.

This will be a disaster

🤡🤡🤡

Might as well. Nobody is winning any “drug war” lol

Trying to kill more people off

Maybe all our ADDICTS will move to BC So BC can deal with them all.

Legalize it all and tax the shit out of it.

Plastic cutlery, bags & straws are banned but cocaine, meth & fentanyl are completely fine! 🤪

End the drug war.

Formality. How may prosecutions have their been in the last 6 months? Next, full legalization.

Illicit drugs are bad. That is why they are illicit.

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