We're at the point where six people in BC are dying a day due to toxic drugs and the body count is far, far exceeding that of the other public health emergency,

We're at the point where six people in BC are dying a day due to toxic drugs and the body count is far, far exceeding that of the other public health emergency, the covid-19 pandemic. It's hard to applaud the government for finally turning away from Regan era drug policy thinking and enacting this change because it's taken years and the amount of dead due to inaction so great. It has been obvious for years that there was a toxic drug crisis on the street, that the drugs were poisoned and that people were overdosing and dying because it was impossible to know what was in the drugs and how much to use without overdosing. The real solution to this problem will be to replace the toxic street drugs with a safe supply of prescribed drugs so that people know what they're using. This decriminalization move is a small step toward that future outcome, while in the mean time making it safer for drug users to using in a safe injection site context without fear that they're doing something illegal and having their drugs confiscated by police.