-- "Premier David Eby of British Columbia — the Canadian province that’s a mecca of open-air drug use and supervised injection sites — has admitted decriminalizing drugs was a mistake. 'I was wrong on drug decriminalization and the effect it would have. It was not the right policy. What it became was a permissive structure that said it was okay to use drugs anywhere that resulted in really unhappy consequences.'" --
IT GETS BETTER, BY WHICH I MEAN WORSE... -- "British Columbia decriminalized drugs in January 2023. That year, 2,511 people — almost seven a day — died of drug overdoses, the most ever reported by the province’s coroner." --
NOTA BENE...
-- "Since Vancouver opened that first safe injection site in 2003, yearly overdose deaths have surged 996.5% in the province, from 229 to 2,511." --
