Linda Annis in Surrey, Daniel Fontaine in New Westminster and Alexa Loo in Richmond have joined together to call on the province to scrap the program.
The British Columbia government is facing new pushback over its drug decriminalization pilot project, this time from a trio of city councillors.
Legislators in the state of Oregon recently voted to rescind key elements of that state’s decriminalization pilot. Starting in September, those caught in possession of drugs will face a new misdemeanor that defaults to probation as a sentence, so long as they attend treatment. The new legislation also leaves drug users without a criminal record.
B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside is scheduled to meet with her federal counterpart on Friday to discuss how the decriminalization pilot is working. “I have never seen this kind of open drug use in Richmond, I have never seen this level of encampments in Richmond, I have never seen the amount of suffering in Richmond, people standing in that zombie pose,” Loo told Global News.
The 180 came amid evidence few people were accessing resources set aside for drug users, and amid a drug death toll that continued to mount.BC United Opposition critic for mental health and addictions Elenore Sturko argued it is time for B.C. to follow Oregon’s lead.“It’s a pilot, which means it is something that was tried.
“We are working very hard with all of our partners at the municipal level, with law enforcement, in order to address so that we can try to keep people safe.” “We really felt the need to say to the provincial government that the experiment on decriminalization isn’t working, and we need to do something different,” Loo said. “It’s time to end it.”
“We have not got any evidence that it has saved any lives. In fact, we lost more people than we have in our history to overdoses last year.” Whiteside said the province will provide an update on the decriminalization pilot “later this year,” but wouldn’t say whether that would come before the Oct. 19 provincial election.The British Columbia government is facing new pushback over its drug decriminalization pilot project, this time from a trio of city councillors.
Legislators in the state of Oregon recently voted to rescind key elements of that state’s decriminalization pilot. Starting in September, those caught in possession of drugs will face a new misdemeanor that defaults to probation as a sentence, so long as they attend treatment. The new legislation also leaves drug users without a criminal record.
B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside is scheduled to meet with her federal counterpart on Friday to discuss how the decriminalization pilot is working. “I have never seen this kind of open drug use in Richmond, I have never seen this level of encampments in Richmond, I have never seen the amount of suffering in Richmond, people standing in that zombie pose,” Loo told Global News.
The 180 came amid evidence few people were accessing resources set aside for drug users, and amid a drug death toll that continued to mount.BC United Opposition critic for mental health and addictions Elenore Sturko argued it is time for B.C. to follow Oregon’s lead.“It’s a pilot, which means it is something that was tried.
“We are working very hard with all of our partners at the municipal level, with law enforcement, in order to address so that we can try to keep people safe.” “We really felt the need to say to the provincial government that the experiment on decriminalization isn’t working, and we need to do something different,” Loo said. “It’s time to end it.”
“We have not got any evidence that it has saved any lives. In fact, we lost more people than we have in our history to overdoses last year.” Whiteside said the province will provide an update on the decriminalization pilot “later this year,” but wouldn’t say whether that would come before the Oct. 19 provincial election.The British Columbia government is facing new pushback over its drug decriminalization pilot project, this time from a trio of city councillors.
Legislators in the state of Oregon recently voted to rescind key elements of that state’s decriminalization pilot. Starting in September, those caught in possession of drugs will face a new misdemeanor that defaults to probation as a sentence, so long as they attend treatment. The new legislation also leaves drug users without a criminal record.
B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside is scheduled to meet with her federal counterpart on Friday to discuss how the decriminalization pilot is working. “I have never seen this kind of open drug use in Richmond, I have never seen this level of encampments in Richmond, I have never seen the amount of suffering in Richmond, people standing in that zombie pose,” Loo told Global News.
The 180 came amid evidence few people were accessing resources set aside for drug users, and amid a drug death toll that continued to mount.BC United Opposition critic for mental health and addictions Elenore Sturko argued it is time for B.C. to follow Oregon’s lead.“It’s a pilot, which means it is something that was tried.
“We are working very hard with all of our partners at the municipal level, with law enforcement, in order to address so that we can try to keep people safe.” “We really felt the need to say to the provincial government that the experiment on decriminalization isn’t working, and we need to do something different,” Loo said. “It’s time to end it.”
“We have not got any evidence that it has saved any lives. In fact, we lost more people than we have in our history to overdoses last year.” Whiteside said the province will provide an update on the decriminalization pilot “later this year,” but wouldn’t say whether that would come before the Oct. 19 provincial election.The British Columbia government is facing new pushback over its drug decriminalization pilot project, this time from a trio of city councillors.
Legislators in the state of Oregon recently voted to rescind key elements of that state’s decriminalization pilot. Starting in September, those caught in possession of drugs will face a new misdemeanor that defaults to probation as a sentence, so long as they attend treatment. The new legislation also leaves drug users without a criminal record.
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