B.C.’s historic drug decriminalization experiment is being dramatically scaled back as the NDP government retreats in the face of sustained public anxiety about what it is doing to perceptions of public safety.
It looks like the surrender is not going well, either.
Police, who lost the authority to roust people using drugs from many public spaces, will soon regain it. So families and children exposed to flagrant open drug use might feel safer. No doubt there was some final second-guessing on decriminalization before it kicked in last year. But it’s a mystery why no official seems to have seen the potential for the public-safety crisis that ensued. Maybe it’s because almost everyone in all sectors involved supported it. Everybody was on board.
There was no recognition of the potential for wide-open public drug use to become a dominant issue, after wide-open public drug use was decriminalized.
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