British Columbia now allows possession of 2.5g of illegal drugs in measure to mitigate opioid crisis
podcast, argued that decriminalization means “less drug seizures, less charges, less arrests, less jail time, less courts, less of the state seizing your kid, less of you getting fired because you’ve used an illegal substance, less getting evicted”.
Drug reform advocates say decriminalization won’t fix the opioid crisis – but it will, they say, stop making things worse. Many of the dead did not know how much of their supply of heroin or cocaine contained fentanyl, if they knew there was any at all. Despite his enthusiasm in legalizing cannabis, and regulating its production, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has opposed broader decriminalization.
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