Look at what electing conservatives has always done. Made things so much worse. Please BC don’t be stupid. Ontario and Alberta are worse off for. It won’t be different if you try it out this time.
I’m about as anti drug-war as you can get (actually)… And still when they pushed through public decrim the other year without community dialogue or support and made it quasi-legal for addicts to use in parks and whatever the hell (plot twist as street addicts we’ve always used in parks anyhow) I felt something dark was afoot. I predicted that province-wide smaller communities would make a political thing of it and push back tenfold, and they have. Now safer supply, harm reduction, safe use sites, and decrim are all off the table if conservativism is platformed (and it’s looking like it will be).
I almost thought at the time they were throwing the whole thing and sabotaging it. I almost think even now that’s the case. Feels like the NDP just kinda gave up. I don’t even like them that much (fuck you John Horgan and Katrine Conroy and the CIRG) but they’re objectively better than a party openly advocating for “involuntary treatment” whatever the hell that means.
It’s fuckin sad.
It is. Addiction is a mental illness and, as you said, people will find a way to do drugs anyway.
