High school students in Cowichan Valley, B.C., were recently given tools to use hard drugs, such as cocaine, following a presentation on drugs. Students received kits containing information about “safer snorting” including a picture of a straw hovering above a line of white powder. Included in the kit were tubes for snorting and cards for…
BC High School Students Given ‘Safer Snorting’ Harm-Reduction Drug Products
BC Company Granted Permission by Health Canada to Produce and Sell Cocaine
A British Columbia cannabis company says it has received approval from Health Canada to produce, sell, and distribute cocaine. In a news release on Feb. 22, Adastra Holdings Ltd., which produces marijuana for adult use and medical sales out of headquarters in Langley, B.C., announced that it was granted a Health Canada amendment to its…
BC’s Decriminalize of Illicit Drugs to Start Jan. 31
On Jan. 31, the B.C. government will decriminalize possession of hard drugs under a temporary authorization by Health Canada. Adults over 18 will not be arrested or charged, and their drugs will not be seized, if found in possession of less than 2.5 grams total of any combination of cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, heroin, fentanyl, and/or…
To America’s Permissive Addiction ‘Fix,’ Critics Just Say No
November 24, 2022
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After nine years as a homeless drug addict in Los Angeles, Jared Klickstein finally checked himself into a drug treatment center. Unlike the program he had gone to six years before, which had hot tubs, acupuncture, and trips to the beach, this one, in North Hollywood, was deadly serious about personal responsibility. Clients kept a…
‘Nothing Safe About Handing Out Opioids’: Filmmaker of Documentary on Crime and Addiction in Vancouver
Vancouver Is Dying, a documentary released by independent journalist and city resident Aaron Gunn, has garnered over 2 million views since it premiered on Oct. 7. The one-hour film highlights the overdose crisis, increasing crime, public disorder, and homeless situation in Vancouver, and in particular, criticizes what Gunn calls government “failed policies that have ravaged…
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