Trudeau Effectively Decriminalizes Drugs in BC

[Buster]

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how does trudope do anything on a provincial level?

drug enforcement is a waste...

on weed you need to price the criminals out of the market. you can have a legal market twice the price as it is on street...

Imma let you re-read your post again so you can see why it makes no sense.

[littledan]

I dont understand how decriminalizing possession is going to do anything to reduce the current epidemic.

[g-m]

It might not but I think it's also good to look and see what's not been working for the last 50 years and maybe try something different. There's all that court time, police time, prison time, all that shit is really expensive. Maybe they can use some of that money on programs instead, it honestly can't be worse and more expensive than the past 50 years.

And it's never stopped anyone from doing any drugs they wanted

[tirebob]

I have never understood why taking drugs is criminal... If you start breaking into shit and stealing to pay for your drugs, now you are a criminal, but simply fucking with your own body makes you a criminal? That's just silly.

[killramos]

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It might not but I think it's also good to look and see what's not been working for the last 50 years and maybe try something different. There's all that court time, police time, prison time, all that shit is really expensive. Maybe they can use some of that money on programs instead, it honestly can't be worse and more expensive than the past 50 years.

And it's never stopped anyone from doing any drugs they wanted

The Horgan philosophy seems to be working wonders

[g-m]

Looks like enforcement has been working

[Buster]

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The Horgan philosophy seems to be working wonders

haha, look at 2020 and 2021...wonder what happened there?

[killramos]

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haha, look at 2020 and 2021...wonder what happened there?

Free gibs

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Looks like enforcement has been working

I wouldn’t call the Horgan governments approach enforcement lol.

I have to hand it to him. He’s really taken the let junkies die concept and gone pro

[sabad66]

I’m more curious what would have caused the drop from 18 to 19? Was that a good year for the BC economy?

I feel like when people are gainfully employed, they tend to stay away from junkie drugs.

[ExtraSlow]

Most of bc is a scenic shit hole.

[finboy]

Legalize drugs, drastically ramp up enforcement and sentences on junkie related activity (like stealing catalytic converters, bikes, car prowling)

[Buster]

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Legalize drugs, drastically ramp up enforcement and sentences on junkie related activity (like stealing catalytic converters, bikes, car prowling)

Stop treating overdoses

[killramos]

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Stop treating overdoses

Stop. I can only get so erect

[Yolobimmer]

Personally I'd got the president Duterte route. It's working awesome there.

[zechs]

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Stop. I can only get so erect

Hey that's my line. Don't make me fight you over erections

[finboy]

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Stop treating overdoses

I don’t think you’ll get a lot of pushback on beyond, then again could be bipartisan and lead with “er’s will no longer treat those afraid of needles or those who are super enthusiastic about them”

[vengie]

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Stop treating overdoses

Of note, buddy of mine on the fire department. They have "regulars" that call 911 and say they are going to overdose.
They effectively die, get revived and repeat the following week.
On a four day shift they will respond to ~20-30 overdoses.

Current protocol is full fire engine and four firefighter response + dose of Narcan + EMS to hospital.

1 persons overdose costs tax payers ~$5000+ in responders.

[Buster]

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Of note, buddy of mine on the fire department. They have "regulars" that call 911 and say they are going to overdose.
They effectively die, get revived and repeat the following week.
On a four day shift they will respond to ~20-30 overdoses.

Current protocol is full fire engine and four firefighter response + dose of Narcan + EMS to hospital.

1 persons overdose costs tax payers ~$5000+ in responders.

Canadians are more retarded than the ODer

[davidI]

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I dont understand how decriminalizing possession is going to do anything to reduce the current epidemic.

https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedc...11-021-00394-7

It seems to have worked for Portugal.

I'm all for trying something different. Doubling down on the same policies over and over for the last 50 years hasn't exactly been effective...

[finboy]

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https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedc...11-021-00394-7

It seems to have worked for Portugal.

I'm all for trying something different. Doubling down on the same policies over and over for the last 50 years hasn't exactly been effective...

Michael shellenberg (running for governor of cali) has done some exploration on the why Europe’s decriminalization model works, and why America has a misunderstanding of it. From his view, doing drugs in public would still be illegal, and judges would give the user a choice of rehab or jail. Much more of a carrot and stick vs. “Just let them live their lives if plain sight”