The musings of Dr. Bonnie Henry, Lisa Lapointe and Jennifer Charlesworth create a difficult task for the NDP government
Three of B.C.’s top watchdogs united this week with the goal of propping up public support for safe supply and decriminalization programs amidst a worsening toxic drug crisis.
There’s no evidence safe supply has “flooded the streets” with additional drugs, nor is it true more people are dying because of safe supply, or that more children are overdosing under the policies, said the watchdogs. Perhaps, she mused, B.C. should consider regulating and selling clean street drugs like it currently does cannabis — an idea she said would put the province somewhere between the policies of prohibition and promotion .
Does the general public want a government that takes on the business of regulating and selling cocaine, heroin and meth?The government has gone out on a limb with safe supply and decrim, based on expert advice from respected, thoughtful advocates like Lapointe, Dr. Henry and Charlesworth, along with drug addictions experts and addiction user groups.
But she stopped well short of any talk of using safe supply to push out organized crime, or of considering a future of cannabis-style sales of illicit drugs.
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