BC banning drug use in public spaces in major pullback of decriminalization
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- The B.C. government says it will ban drug use in all public spaces, including parks and hospitals, as part of a major overhaul of its drug decriminalization pilot project.
The move comes amid a raging debate over the province’s approach to the ongoing deadly toxic drug crisis, including decriminalization and “safe supply.”
Possession of up to 2.5 grams of a variety of drugs - including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine - will remain decriminalized in private residences, places where people are legally sheltering plus overdose prevention and drug-checking sites.
Richard Zussman and Keith Baldrey have more on the reasons for the changes.
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Public drug use should never have been allowed in the first place.
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Oh , aren't you a little daddy's girl !
@@allatonce3143 Oh! 🔥
Exactly
I don’t know who approved them before, dumbest idea ever
It was obviously a terrible idea from the start.
It was on purpose. Now all of Eby's fans are calling him a hero for ending it.
The usual scheme of creating a problem and make yourself the hero for "Fixing" it.
Politicians know most voters are morons.
We need drunk driving lanes to prevent drunk driving.
I know right? They don't have a choice. Lol
Wow. It’s comments like this that make me wish I could sincerely thank whoever invented the internet. Fantastic!
What's next, start giving free alcohol funded by tax payers money to alcoholics in order for them to quit? That's the Liberal NDP mindset, no personal accountability just blame society.
Alcohol addition is solved by staying sober. Drug addiction is solved by more drugs? Someone make the insanity stop.
Maybe people will stop driving drunk if we stop stigmatizing drunk drivers.
The day wokeism failed...
Sometimes being kind isn’t so nice, and it has some unintended consequences
Where are the experts who claimed it works. Not worth the cost and not worth the crimes.
@beaverhillscomplex are they the experts ?
Maybe you should actually look up what decriminalization is and what David Eby actually wants to do.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 didn’t turn into reality
Experts? I think they are just the drug dealers, aren't they?
Self righteous hypocrite.
This was the stupidest idea to have people be allowed any type of drugs.
Now you are gonna have Way more drug addicts on the street.
And no they do have a choice. They have a choice to not use drugs.
The majority of people know drugs are bad ...they made the choice to take it .....
@@maryleung1425yes that is true but we hold sympathy for them because we don't know wich ones are drug addicts or wich ones takes drugs to numb pain we don't know about.
Not every homeless person is a drug addict or monster but not every person who owns a home is an angle. The world is complex.
Some deserve more then they have, others deserve less then they have....
Yup. I chose to change. It’s not easy but it is possible.
@@HFFCANADA "who owns a home is an angle" do you mean angel?? learn to spell properly. 🙄
@@KizzMyAbs 👏Good for you abmaster! 👍Do some YT videos explaining how you did it to motivate others or maybe get a job with government as social worker. People in trouble, will often only listen to someone who has shared their pain.
It makes sense. Nudity is not allowed in public places, drinking beer is not allowed in public places, so why would drugs be allowed then.
@@LLitterally I agree, it is good idea to designate a place for drug addicts. We hope that services such as ambulance, showers , food and counseling will also be provided. they can camp in peace too. If some want to make their lives a shi*, that is their choices, but they should not be allowed to impose their choices on others.
@@HamidA-to8vySo they will impose their addiction on tax payers pockets who will still pay for the designated areas for drug use, ambulance, showers, food, beds, and even the drugs to keep them drugging themselves. The only plus is not having to see them drugging themselves. Would prefer use of tax money on mental illness treatments, rehab and affordable housing, not on enabling drug use.
@@HamidA-to8vy Straw man fallacy. Before there was “drugs” it was skid row alcoholics, opium, khat et al.
Obviously it’s a problem, a complex one.
Where do we draw the line?
So if you’re God we’re a bunch of animals with pack mentality acting like savages? Kick a person when they’re down, because everyone chooses their lot in life?
Some people choose fate and others have free will to be be safe 24/7/365? It’s that simple?
Apparently you’re the righteous sanctimonious one who deems what’s right and wrong for the whole world. SMH
@HamidA-to8vy And if there are regular people who already live in that area? Do we want another Hastings street in BC?
Women have had the right to go topless in public since 1992.
BC NDP government is the worst BC government we had.
David Eby's the Sean Fraser of the West Coast
Really ??? Have the NDP called an election campaigned all over the province, made the usual election promises , win the election and a month later inform a astonished province that they with a billion $$ subsidy from the Harper government institute a blended GST + PST into HST...remember ??? O and it got better . Then the outrage was so loud the corrupt BC LIBS NOW UNITED PARTY had to spend millions to hold a province wide referendum which they lost and we had to repa6 the billion or so $$ to Ottawa.
Don't get me started on the BC RAIL scandal under Gordon Campbell.
Care to reconsider worst government in BC history ??
NDP WCB LIBERALS and the LIKE need to review the written record
that Trudeau says dose not exist. As he clawed back my disability as I struggle
for Justice under my fight compensation the province of BC continues to deny.
NDP WCB LIBERALS and the LIKE need to review the written record
that Trudeau says dose not exist. As he clawed back my disability as I struggle
for Justice under my fight compensation the province of BC continues to deny.
NDP WCB LIBERALS and the LIKE need to review the written record
that Trudeau says dose not exist. As he clawed back my disability as I struggle
for Justice under my fight compensation the province of BC continues to deny.
Hospitals and a lot of public places don't allow smoking. Why is this even an issue? There are just too many people without their brains in power. Time to vote them out this year.
“Those people are going to be driven back into the alleys” better a alley than a playground. It’s not only about addicts, it’s also about public safety, why is that never considered?
Yeah I was like "wait what?" OFC that's better than in a park lmao
I remember when drugs were illegal the streets were much cleaner and much more safe.
And less deaths
@@ruthpicknell224 no for sure, it's sad honestly.
Vancouver has become horrific. I have seen so much active drug use in busses or restaurants. We need to clean up the province. These restrictions are excellent. In Vancouver even my ex is now a addict. With no law against it and being autistic she believes they are not bad for you. Hopefully more lives are saved. Lets work on getting housing and jobs for the people in need.
You smoking the good stuff bud?
It may be that you need to stop voting for woke extremists.
Decriminalization shouldn't mean that people are just getting away with it. It should just mean that of you're caught with it (for personal consumption) instead of jail, you get sent to in-patient rehab and are given supports for rehab, housing, employment. Drug dealing should still be illegal. They need to put the systems in place to help people.
So many questions
@@73cidaliaoh if only there was enough inpatient treatment / rehab, we don't even have a mental health live in facility for people who cannot earn a living or keep housing. In the olden days there was Riverview, back when it was understood that severely mentally ill people need a live-in facility, where they are properly cared for as a ward of the state.
Forced rehab for these people. This has gone on long enough. These drugs are poison not a good time.
You cannot force rehab, for something that is not an offense. That is why decriminalization was such a mistake. Left the police powerless. Now that it is so bad, they don't want to do anything about it.
@bengt_axle was never the police that could force rehab. But the courts. Courts have zero desire to enforce laws and provide consequences. So there's no point of giving police tools
As a young person with a family I would never ever move to a place that allows open drug use. I never want my children to be exposed to open drug use or come to the assumption that it's normal or okay. Why anyone would think that this creates a healthy living environment is beyond crazy to me.
In the name of inclusiveness, no one ever considered the effect on the rest of us.
BC is gross
All NDP and Liberal politicians and burocrats should get OUT of B.C. I have a toddler and now I have to think twice because going anywhere. These “advocates” for decriminalization do not think about seniors and children.
The Woke Socialists had to do something with an election coming up, no doubt looking at how voter dissatisfaction with social disorder impacted the vancouver municipal election.... that being said, the genie is out of the bottle and the junkies will ride roughshod over regulations. And the junky pimp advocates are already crying foul. So we'll see if anything really changes.
You obviously live in a small town
Good luck
You live in lower mainland?
Drug addicts are more important than seniors and children, according to the far left.
This is where woke mentality gets you!
Not getting your point.??
@@user9b2 The chaos, disorder and blatant criminal behaviour in public places is a direct result of the permissive, "it's not your fault, you are a victim" attitude and resulting policies, also called the woke mentality. Of course most of us who have been around a while and have seen enough human misbehaviour to last us two life times could see this coming from miles away. Self control, sober living, steady meaningful productive labor is where the solution is. not in the constant ego stroking and giving in to any and all excuses for non-performance living.
@@freddexta3363You’ve got no grasp on anything. “Woke mentality” also means nothing as you sort attribute it to everything from being accepting of sexuality and gender to approaching mental health, drug use and addiction from a compassionate perspective. Sober living is great for those who cannot use recreationally, but this idealist approach is quite honestly embarrassing, especially considering you think you’re educating.
Too late, your negligence/corruption allowed too much crime to enter either intentional or not, you will have to be tried under rico
Evetything we do in this country seems to have the end goal of making everybody destitute and miserable. Im starting to think we are being destroyed on purpose.
Really.
Incompetence or planned destruction? I'm leaning towards planned.
"substance use disorder" isn't that pleasant. An addict is an addict.
So why doesn't the province provide alcoholics booze to treat their addiction? Sober is, as sober does. Or does addiction trump everything?
@@rafbeard4975Are you trained in drugs/addictions?
@@rafbeard4975 They do provide alcohol in Vancouver hospitals and homeless shelters.
"substance use disorder" is a disease. An addict is a person. If you think people are diseases I have a book for you to read. You may have a hard time understanding it though unless you speak German.
All part of the new BC woke speak, hopefully it will soon disappear. The permissive attitude has brought us nothing but misery piled on top of more misery.
What's next, start giving free alcohol funded by tax payers money to alcoholics in order for them to quit? That's the Liberal NDP mindset, no personal accountability just blame society.
👏Yes! yes!
They already serve alcohol to alcoholics in hosptials and homeless shelters in Vancouver.
They are enablers.....
Actually that's a thing already.
@@vrtdubber 🤨🤔 Where? Show proof please.
Politicians didn’t decriminalize drugs for YOU.
Politicians decriminalized drugs for THEM!
well, for their pocket books... but yeah, pretty much.
@@derekwoodford9955 they use at their private parties
It should never have been introduced!
Soddom and Gemmorah open for business! 😱👎
Remember, drugs are bad
MmmmK
It should have never been allowed in the first place .
It was a bad mistake from the start .
Mistake or social experiment
Stop Break in's, remove all doors. Lets get the NDP, Liberal logic going.
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parents, do your job and keep your kids away from drugs.
families, do your job and keep your relatives away from drugs.
friends, do your job and keep your friends away from drugs.
Everybody, stop voting for woke extremists.
Is that really how you think life works? Lol
Apparently not in Canada
@@willyhwang1059 Welcome to leftism, where someone else is always responsible for your troubles.
@@DMilbury Yes. lol. Unless you're a woke NDP supporter that encourages drug use.
It's about time!!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Those idiots should never have let this start in the first place.
Amsterdam already did the same. It didn't work. It never worked.
Seattle....
Portland
Who could’ve seen this coming 🙄
Here is an idea, Ban drugs period!
does banning guns stop illegal guns from coming in to the country?
👏Yes I second that Alexia!
Ban drugs ? As if you care !
Ban hydrocarbon fuels too huffer.
No...
I was on the way to school on a public bus and there was a man rolling a joint besides me. This is ridiculous
Finally some common sense
Why did they decriminalize it at the first place …. Problem of gun violence ? More guns. Problem of drugs? More drugs. 😂
Stop treating drug users as spoiled teenagers. Time for tougher laws
Tougher laws is one but also an actual rigid treatment program. Caught using elicit drugs or in possession then you get the choice of jail for a year or 30-90 days in a treatment facility.
@@Michael-pg7rv I fully agree with you. No one should be able to carry drugs that do so much harm to people and communities. And the consequences should reflect that.
At last you guys understand, these drug users is a threat to general public, Business and tourism.
Experts: Lets turn B.C to Skid Row to solve addiction
BC: What a genius idea, take all the money you need!
The fact there was even a debate on this is disgusting. How are people in encampments still allowed to openly use drugs, littering our streets with needles and drug paraphernalia. Failed society.
Who tf thought it was a good idea
All lies
Did they just say homeless encampments are not public spaces?
Yes.
Its about bloody time!!
When I was a kid, I'd be put in jail
Tax payers should pay for people to both acquire and use hard drugs safely! This law is unconstitutional 🤣🤣🤣
Gee.... who would have thought this could have been a bad idea?
No one in the NDP for sure.
@@tedcity5861 Of course not, they were too busy figuring out how to balance the provincial budget and be good stewards of the public purse to the benefit of our and the next generation(s).
Thank Goodness. The East end of Vancouver, around Hastings, was looking like a dystopian Society of Zombies. It broke my heart to see a video of it and think it is right here in Canada.
Great news.
Everyone on that street CHOSE drugs
So they’re admitting they were wrong then. 👍🏼
Imagine being a new home buyer having to walk down this street .
Imagine dying on that street because the government doesn’t care about mental illness
@@sp-dm8ej I like dreaming !
@@sp-dm8ejimagine taking a drug that you know full well is likely to end your life or F it up and blaming the government for what you knew would happen.
@@sp-dm8ejimagine never using drugs like most of us
Decriminalization is the beginning of the end, if we already aren't down that oath. PLEASE STOP!!! THINK ABOUT FAMILIES!!!!!!
Thank goodness for this decision. I dont want to give people excuses to useing drugs in playgrounds. Weed is already legal. Im not in support of open drug use. No way.
Yeah but you don't want to pay any more to enforce what you think is right !
@@allatonce3143 Woke madness right here.
I cant drink in public, why can they do drugs in public
What about the towns where they have safe injection sites right beside public schools
lol “substance use disorder”. That’s a new one.
Because everyone is so “woke” now that you can’t even use real language anymore without offending someone
Why was this allowed how inept do you need to be?
Didn't we just add drug dens to get our federal money?
What kind of amateurs do we have running the show here? Policy makers are figuring out now that letting people do it anywhere was a bad idea? I suppose it's an excellent idea if one is inventing problems to create new restrictions to solve it.
Drugs? How about listing them. Illicit What are they?
I went to rehab and one video we viewed was a drug is a drug. No such thing as hard and soft drugs.
Work camps 30 days for possession automatically..60 for 2nd offence perfect lotsa former addicts will be the new street people
Amsterdam to Portland...who new this wouldn't work?...who new?...shocking...😅
Why isn’t A Dix in jail for his role in Crimes Against Humanity?
Doesn’t matter, Eby. Come election time, you’re done.
About bloody time! I’m sick of my town being destroyed by drug addicts. I have no sympathy for them.
Just prohibited completely thats a disaster for the city.
Since when does Ottawa get to decide what goes on in provinces?
And decriminalization of illicit drugs just balloons the problem.
Bleeding heart do-gooders and ill-educated bureaucrats exponentially increase the problem.
Offer rehab, and if the person refuses, such is their decision.
How much clearer could it be that these people have no idea what they're doing?
They're gripped by ideologies, incapable of rational, critical thought.
The problem is not getting people off the street with affordable housing. Not that use drugs
@@freeisalwaysme You don't have a clue.
slow learner huh?
@@freeisalwaysme Care to provide any evidence to back this claim up?
@@freeisalwaysme The problem is people choosing to use drugs helped along by a permissive government that has now gone so far as to actually give addicts taxpayer funded drugs so they can continue their cycle of druguse and resulting social disorder. And the NDP's solution to that problem will be more of the same, only faster and more often.
Caffeine is a drug
Good.
Finally. Common sense.
Druggies come to Saskatchewan! We let the druggies walk around our hospitals and steal from patients' lockers!
I volunteer downtown Vancouver. Putting people in jail for drug use is not a bad thing. People can detox and think in jail.
In other news, to offset this logical move, they have decided to allow public muggings.
Vancouver just feels unsafe compared to the past
What is this man. They need to listen to people whom actually were addicted then beaten this addiction...
They just decriminalized and actually do nothing about it. Just encourage people to use more.
What could go wrong ?
What a concept 🤦♂️
If you cannot consume alcohol in public area, same principle should be applied to similar substance. Simple as that
We are so incredibly stupid now that obviously dumb ideas are tested out rather than being dismissed outright.
Glad to hear this. My husband and I were just talking about this because we passed 2 people just shooting up in the open right around the corner from an elementary school with parents walking their kids.
They tried the portugal way but only implemented it being legal lol nothing after that.
Exactly. If all homeless people were houses. People wouldn't care if they used. People just don't Like the site
This has been horrific policy failure by the BCNDP and the federal Liberals . Nothing will change with this announcement . We need to vote Eby and the BCNDP out of office.
1-Politicians makes public drug use legal. 2-Causes real-estate market to not grow as fast as it normally would. 3-Politicians buy houses. 4-Politicians makes public drug use illegal again. 5- Investment returns to real-estate market after cities become safer. 6. Politicians sell houses after its value increase by a few hundreds of thousand dollars in a short period of time.
DJ Larkin disagrees with this? Drug use in public places, including family parks where children play and where needles are a serious risk? On what planet is this perspective sane? SFU should revisit their hiring policies.
Unintended people making money requires ban be put back into place
Decriminalization works in Europe because they give housing, a living allowance and mental/social assistance. Canada - where it costs 1500 to fill the fridge and 2000 to rent a one bedroom, only decriminalized to speed up their euthanasia program.
I find this hard to believe? Who wouldn’t want to walk down the public streets of your town/city and NOT see drug addicts? Isn’t that what all parents want for their children? Absolutely shocked.
there is a homeless shelter near my home on van-island and most are on drugs there, and its been difficult living in this area especially in the last two years of the legal drugs, fires, overdosing, numerous businesses' around the Area closed and most disturbing, gun violence's and a couple murders, I get that legalizing drugs and police not arresting them was supposed to encourage addict's to choose to attend services to get well of their own choice, but this new fentanyl and more hardened substances are way to strong, a very dangerous level of psychosis and addiction that addicts simply cannot be reasoned with and refuse treatment and should be locked up!!!!
Duh!!! Who thought this would work?!
This never made sense. Drinking in public is banned. This should have not been any different.
Dj Larkin is making a living off drug addicts
What! Why arrest them - take them to the hospital instead. This is like wearing blinders. The arrest policy is something like throwing people into the lion pit.
The rights of drug addict people can´t be most important that rights of families to feel safety. If you want through your life in the wrong direction, that can´t be done in the same place where kids and families have a normal life.
If they are using and hitting anyone. Mind you're business
What an idiotic idea to begin with, if you possess hard drugs, take them in your own private area, not in the public for the world to see.
"Drug dealers in hospitals" you mean Doctors? 😂
I don't understand, no choices they said so their choice is to use drugs????
Where are the homeless people supposed to go?
They’re finally taking the fentanyl problem seriously
when drug usage is seen in parks and other public places, no one with a family wants to go there, and thus you reduce the value of the entire region and those parks effectively are no go zones for common people. Freedom of drug addicts should not be put above Investment value and public interest, good move, they should have never allowed it in the first place
There is only one solution to the drug situation in BC and it is sobriety. How about this idea, Bonnie Henry and David Eby put our taxpayer monies into an exit plan to help people overcome addiction so they can have their lives back. Stop trying to normalize addiction as it is NOT normal and it is no way to live. And to make it clear if the citizens of this province were allowed to have an opinion on Safe Supply we would not be in this situation in the first place. John Rustad for Premier.