VANCOUVER — Activist and podcaster Garth Mullins has been advocating for safe supply of illegal drugs for years, but says he started feeling a 'moral panic brewing' recently against the idea.
VANCOUVER — Activist and podcaster Garth Mullins has been advocating for safe supply of illegal drugs for years, but says he started feeling a"moral panic brewing" recently against the idea.
"The climate to harm reduction and safe supply has been getting increasingly hostile over the years," Mullins said, walking down Hastings Street with hundreds of people, behind a banner calling for action on the toxic drug crisis. "This group has knowingly operated illegally in the Downtown Eastside and we have now taken action to stop it," Heard said.
"We know that the government should be doing this, but we're so far away from that and DULF had the courage, the compassion and really the love to go ahead and do it," McBain said in an interview."For some reason, after two years, the Vancouver Police Department moved in and did what they did." McBain, who lost her only child to an overdose, says policymakers have been slow to take the kind of action needed to keep parents like her from losing more loved ones.
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