
Drug Decriminalization Changes Nothing
Drug decriminalization changes nothing. Taxpayers will fund more addictive drugs from pharmaceutical companies, sold by users, adding to harm. Need treatment.
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Drug decriminalization changes nothing. Taxpayers will fund more addictive drugs from pharmaceutical companies, sold by users, adding to harm. Need treatment.

Drug decriminalization debate with Dr. Julian Somers, addiction research leader and Guy Felicella featured on radio. Fact: No one being jailed for possession.

Critics are raising concerns that opioid drugs from Vancouver’s narcotic vending machines could be ending up in the hands of youth.
The MySafe company gets a 3.5 million contract from federal government.

An SFU study found drug possession convictions were only 3.8 percent, so how will “decriminalizing” drugs get people well? Dr. Julian Somers says more actual treatment based on what works well in places like Portugal are needed, not more experiments.

The real winners in BC’s drug decriminalization experiment are pharmaceutical companies who created the opioid addiction problem.

Drug decriminalization and $33M spent, no treatment improvement.
Oregon has second-highest rate of substance abuse in US, ranked dead last for treatment access.

Drug addiction: The metrics that matter are fewer overdoses, hospitalizations and deaths. Decriminalization will fail without creating more treatment spaces.

The BC Government ordered Simon Fraser University to destroy an internationally unique research database. Addiction, crime, and homelessness in BC were studied.

We should not be the only location offering drug decriminalization and using taxpayer funds to give illicit drugs to more and more people.

“Safe supply” advocates often invested in the companies or drug distributors that directly benefit from publicly funded harmful drugs revealed on CKNW.

Activists groups and those invested in drug companies drive billions of our tax dollars into dysfunctional homeless and addiction programs with poor oversight.

“Safe supply” of publicly funded harmful drugs is just marketing with no evidence of success.
Portugal has: recovery, job skills, 0 consumption sites.