Legalizing hard drugs: Are inmates running the asylum in Canada? (maple leaf style)

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Conclusion: So it sounds like Dr Bonnie Henry -- the BC minister of health -- wanted to make legal and safety-inspected opioids obtainable to people without prescription. Although she criticizes [illegal drug?] prohibition as a failure and as race-motivated, it is unclear that she literally wanted to eliminate the continued pursuit and prosecution of such. Though by allowing prescription drugs to be available over the counter, obviously that expands the sources for hard drugs in general and provides easier access to them.

Though this video was released 4 or 5 days ago, the events below actually transpired earlier in July.

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https://youtu.be/YuiQbkCLQdk

VIDEO INTRO (at bottom): Do you ever get the feeling that the inmates are running the asylum? Seems that way on Canada's drug policy. A recent report by British Columbia's medical officer of Health Dr Bonnie Henry went even further than Ontario's medical officer of Health Dr Kieran Moore had gone earlier this year. They both want full decriminalization of all hard drugs.

But listen to the reason that Dr Henry gave for it supporting this idea in her report issued under her name. Dr Henry actually said that we need to get rid of drug laws because of well, white supremacy.  Prohibition in Canada is based on a history of racism: white supremacy paternalism, colonialism, classism and human rights violations...
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Dr Bonnie Henry's Report
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health..._drugs.pdf

EXCERPTS: Drug prohibition—the system of laws and policies that constitute how Canada has regulated many psychoactive substances—restricts access to and criminalizes the production, possession, and sale of certain drugs and substances.

[...] While anyone who uses unregulated drugs is at risk, not every group is equally impacted. Indigenous Peoples in BC have been disproportionately impacted by he drug poisoning emergency, due to deeply embedded systems and ideologies of settler colonialism and racism...

[...] Prohibition in Canada is based on a history of racism, white supremacy, paternalism, colonialism, classism, and human rights violations. Prohibition impedes public health and harm reduction initiatives and results in persistent personal, social, and structural stigma; increased incarceration of non-violent, low-level offenders; and related societal and economic costs.

Socioeconomically excluded populations, including women, people living in poverty, and Indigenous and Black people, are disproportionately criminalized by drug law enforcement and the harmful impacts of the criminal justice system.
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Addictions minister swiftly rejects Dr. Bonnie Henry's call for access to opioids without a prescription
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...-1.7260641

EXCERPT: The B.C. NDP government has swiftly rejected a recommendation from the province's top doctor that B.C. expand its safer supply program and allow people to obtain opioids without a prescription, including at compassion clubs and even retail stores.

In her latest report on the overdose crisis, released Thursday, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry called for an end to the prohibition on hard drugs, which she says has caused people to rely on unregulated, toxic drugs that are killing an average of seven people a day in B.C.

Brian Lilley: The battle against legalizing drugs across Canada ... https://youtu.be/YuiQbkCLQdk

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YuiQbkCLQdk