Posted on 09/11/2023 9:14:55 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
We’ve now had six months worth of statistics on overdose deaths in British Columbia following the move to decriminalize simple possession of all drugs. The results aren’t just less than encouraging, they should be sending people screaming in the other direction...
Right now, according to the latest figures from the British Columbia Coroners Service, the province is on track for their worst year ever for drug overdose deaths — even after bringing in their decriminalization of possession on Jan. 31...
This despite the fact that B.C. has implemented every harm-reduction program that has been proposed, from safe-injection sites to safe supply and effectively making all drugs legal. As each new measure has been introduced, drug overdose deaths have increased, except for a brief drop in 2019...
It’s the same when it comes to so-called safe supply, in which addicts are given a prescription of pharmaceutical grade opioids to stop them from taking toxic street drugs...
Despite opioid-related emergency room visits going up five times what they were and deaths increasing four times what they were, this program was declared a success and expanded to communities across the country....
Writing in the Globe and Mail, Dr. Mark Mallet has called for an end of unwitnessed safe-supply programs in which people are given drugs to take home...
He has seen people whose lives have been destroyed after starting their road to addiction with pills coming out of the safe-supply program...
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
also seems to be a lot more crime around "safe injection sites"
Is this an increase in the entire nation, or are all of the druggies migrating to BC? I didn’t see that mentioned.
Since last Thursday, we drove from Bellingham, WA to Vancouver, BC, then yesterday to Pemberton and east to Revelstoke, BC (where I’m writing right now). I thought Washington State had a lot of cannabis outlets! It must be the official provincial plant here in BC.
Wish us luck to not get eaten by bears on the trails today.
I think often of the idea that I recall reading some time back (believe it was from Ann Coulter, so hoping that that does not cause people here to immediately dump on me or the idea expressed) that had if you legalize things like drugs and even prostitution (like the Chicken Ranch in Nevada), you should also abolish welfare on demand and most other paternalistic programs from the government.
Because that was what things were like both in the United States and Canada when Lincoln was the U.S. President or MacDonald was our Prime Minister and you could snort cocaine within sight of Capitol or Parliament Hill and the ladies of the night had their places nearby.
What really stoopid looks like.
Enjoy it!
A retired LA Chief of Police recently pointed out:
Homelessness is a big, government-funded industry. And like all industries, it will continue to try to grow. LA “attacked” its homeless “crisis” with $6.5 billion in spending and government bloat. Its homeless population then rose from 35K to 100K
He pointed out, it will never be solved because it would mean hundreds of highly paid bureaucrats would have to give up their high-paying jobs.
In the US we have another problem. We’re trusting the same government that has left the border open for drug and human trafficking to put a stop to it.
One more vivid example, if any more were needed, that liberals are incapable of connecting dots.
For them cause-and-effect is a foreign concept.
Things just happen.
“October 21, 2021”
“The Czech Republic has one of Europe’s highest drug use rates, especially when it comes to methamphetamine and other amphetamine-based drugs. This is true on the Czech Republic’s national level, and it’s also true of Prague, which has the highest rate of per capita amphetamine misuse of all European cities.”
“Meth addiction first cropped up in the Czech Republic in the 1950s. And by the 1970s, it was a national public health emergency of epidemic-level proportions.”
[That was under Communism.]
https://www.narcononeurope.dk/en/blog/the-czech-republic-a-hotspot-for-drug-addiction-in-europe.html
“Meth is also the number one cause of IV drug use in the Czech Republic, and the third leading cause of drug-related deaths, after opiates and solvent drugs.”
“Despite opioid-related emergency room visits going up five times what they were and deaths increasing four times what they were, this program was declared a success and expanded to communities across the country....”
“(believe it was from Ann Coulter, so hoping that that does not cause people here to immediately dump on me or the idea expressed)”
Not me, Ann does OK until she or someone mentions President Trump, then she has a case of the screaming vapors that would make a Victorian era woman blush.
I’m aware of the opioid problem. I thought that was prescription only and illegal otherwise. I don’t see how that proves any point.
Doing drugs ends either in jail or the grave
“A retired LA Chief of Police recently pointed out:
Homelessness is a big, government-funded industry. And like all industries, it will continue to try to grow. LA “attacked” its homeless “crisis” with $6.5 billion in spending and government bloat. Its homeless population then rose from 35K to 100K
He pointed out, it will never be solved because it would mean hundreds of highly paid bureaucrats would have to give up their high-paying jobs.”
I couldn’t agree more. And it’s not just the official bureaucrats but especially the so called homeless “advocates” and “activists” who are simply pimps for the homeless on government pay.
I see the obvious need for more SWAT teams, armored cars, M4s, MP5s and property confiscation.
Would you trust our Federal Government to deploy them against drug dealers instead of Conservatives?
Everything that is happening with this legalization is a feature, not a bug.
This isn’t a policy mistake, or “good intentions gone wrong”.
The Left gains power from chaos, crime, filth, despair, disorder, violence, decay, and squalor.
They also gain power as people become hopeless, helpless, depressed, dependent, addicted, isolated and alienated.
The Left controls every institution. Every manifestation of the problems their misrule causes gives them the opportunity to gain even more power to “fix” the problems they previously caused.
Failure is their superpower.
The only way to stop this is if this Regime collapses, and the institutions they control collapse with it.
Lived un Vanc, BC in 1998, when I believe they started giving out clean needles...knew it would NOT WORK THEN!
A 435% increase in 10 years. Hmm...must be climate change.
The points are:
1.) Depopulation; 2.) Sow chaos by decriminalizing crime; 3.) Seize control by taking away rights in the name of security (to deal with now-legal crime).
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