„Es hat nicht funktioniert“: Provinz Kanada beendet Drogenentkriminalisierung

I supported this program at first, but it was apparent that it failed pretty early on. It just made it so that addicts felt safer doing it in the open more.

The government weren’t going to do everything suggested as well, financially it was a black hole for everything supporters wanted.

They wanted 100% government funded care, treatment, housing, support, counseling. Along with the decriminalization.

I can only imagine what the price tag would be, the other problem is that any places chosen for low cost housing for people in these programs were all shut down from NIMBY’s who didn’t want the housing build in their neighborhoods.

It was DOA from the start, because the first pillar to getting off drugs would be affordable housing, and those who lived in the area’s shut them down before they could be built. And the only places the government could house people like this were in the downtown core, which has been linked to an increase police presence and people feeling not safe and increased crime.

Sadly, the project was a failure. It would probably requires billions in funding to get it up and running and it would require the government to stone wall NIMBY’s to build the housing required to shelter people.