Ian Mulgrew: Why B.C.'s decriminalization experiment won't stop the drug deaths and misery

Ian Mulgrew: It not only maintains the contaminated supply, but it does little to address emergency care costs or street sales by gangsters.

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The only jurisdiction she could point to was Portugal, a small country that adopted an administrative rather than criminal law to deal with drug possession. But it also invested heavily in treatment services. It would be a bad joke if the death toll was not closing in on the country’s casualty count for the Second World War.

Most importantly, it will do nothing to reduce the six-a-day needless deaths because it maintains the contaminated supply. The college has made it clear it would rather abandon to subterranean chemists patients receiving an addictive drug even though they may have chronic pain or continuing pain. Still, it’s not only the “unworthy” who are dying. It’s mostly single men between the ages of 30 and 60, and a disproportionate number of Indigenous people.

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