The B.C. government has confirmed that its ill-fated pilot program to decriminalize drugs will end on January 31st.
“I find it really hypocritical the way the government is talking about how ‘we don’t want to involve people in the criminal justice system, we want to get them into healthcare’ but they have never made the proper investment into the healthcare, into the treatment… We already have a healthcare crisis in this province with E.R.s shutting down all over because of understaffing…”
“Arresting people and putting them in jail has never gotten people to stop using drugs. It’s never stopped the flow of toxic drugs. Nothing is going to change and I think the number of deaths is going to increase.”
