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CHARBONNEAU – B.C.’s beautiful decriminalization failure

IT WAS A WONDERFUL attempt to reverse a century of criminalization but political reality and toxic drugs got in the way. The election cycle of four years leaves little time for decriminalization to have any effect. B. C. Premier David Eby understands the political reality. His popularity has dropped even as the opposition is in disarray. It’s over. Eby says public drug use will not be permitted when the province’s contentious decriminalization trial ends. “It didn’t work and we ended that,” he admitted. With decriminalization, we’ll stumble along with criminalization – which has failed miserably to reduce deaths from drug use. But drug death prevention never was the intent of criminalization. The target was marginalized groups. Drugs used by those in positions of power, such as tobacco, alcohol and caffeine, were never considered for criminalization. The intent of the Opium Act of 1908, and those acts that followed, was to suppress marginalized and racialized groups and to save good white women from lives of debauchery. The laws were meant to protect the morals of European Canadians from corruption. Emily Murphy, a.k.a. “Janey Canuck,” made it clear. She wrote tales of how white women from “good families” were being lured into [...]

Expert says BC ignored research before rolling out drug decriminalization

westernstandardonline.com - 25/Jan 15:00

CALGARY — With the BC government scrapping the decriminalization of drugs project, one has to ask — Why didn't they do this sooner?

Expert says BC ignored research before rolling out drug decriminalization

westernstandardonline.com - 25/Jan 15:00

CALGARY — With the BC government scrapping the decriminalization of drugs project, one has to ask — Why didn't they do this sooner?

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eurasiareview.com - 01:34

Introduction Reports of targeted violence against Amhara academics and professionals have raised growing concern about the safety of intellectual...

Targeting The Amhara Intelligentsia: Killings, Detentions, And The Legal Threshold Of Genocide Under International Law – OpEd

eurasiareview.com - 01:34

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CHARBONNEAU – B.C.’s beautiful decriminalization failure

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