VANCOUVER - British Columbia will soon join a handful of jurisdictions around the world where drug users are not criminalized for possessing small amounts of some illicit drugs for personal use. Decriminalization in B.C. MJ Milloy, a research scientist at the BC Centre on Substance Use, said overdoses and drug use by youth have both dropped in Portugal. “The toll of that is thousands of deaths.”Helen Jennens, whose two sons fatally overdosed, one from an addiction to prescription drugs, called decriminalization in B.C. “I would have decriminalization as only one small part of an overall system of care.

Source: thestar June 01, 2022 22:00 UTC