Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is looking at the issue of decriminalizing hard drugs with the provinces and is open to further action, a departure from his previous resistance to the idea.
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Is the ‘War on Drugs’ over? Canada is seeing a ‘shift’ in its approach to drugs, experts say
The federal government introduced legislation Tuesday to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for drug offences, and Health Canada decided last year to allow some palliative patients to use psilocybin — the chemical compound in magic mushrooms — to relieve end-of-life suffering. Toronto and Vancouver have also called for the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of drugs.
‘It’s a different beast’: US fentanyl deaths will rise, warns Narcan developer
Deaths from fentanyl will continue to rise and overdoses may be increasingly difficult to battle in the US, said Roger Crystal, who helped develop Narcan nasal spray, an easy-to-use medication that reverses overdoses.
The overdose crisis that killed more than 100,000 Americans in one year is “all about fentanyl”, Crystal said – and it’s only going to get worse.
Those who are overdosing from fentanyl have a shorter window of time to be saved and may need additional doses of the medication.
Drug buyers’ club receives Vancouver’s approval to secure a drug supply
Vancouver City Council voted on Thursday to support a program that would provide drugs to people at risk of overdosing.
Vancouver backs push for ‘compassion clubs’ selling safer heroin, cocaine, meth
Vancouver city council voted Thursday to back a push for “compassion clubs” to supply safer drugs to drug users in the city.
The motion, which passed with unanimous support, will see the city endorse an application by the Drug User Liberation Front and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users for a federal exemption of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
Merck’s New Drug – A Wonder Or Incipient Slaughter?
Molnupiravir, a drug Merck thinks “may be the answer to Covid-19”, is now all the rage. The company will be asking for authorization to use it, presumably in an EUA since there are “no other treatments for ambulatory (non-hospital) persons.”
That’s bull****, of course, but bull**** is the norm; just ignore the elephants in the room — all of them — for which we have a crap-ton of safety data spanning decades.
This is a “new molecule.” I looked at it. Those who are calling it Merckmectin or Phizermectin (that is, an “on-patent” reformulation of an extremely safe and widely-distributed drug) are making a serious error, and that error may kill you.
San Francisco is ‘drowning in fentanyl.’ Where is the drug coming from?
San Francisco is in the grips of an unprecedented drug epidemic as fentanyl floods the street-drug marketplace, intensifying the peril of addiction and leading to a staggering number of overdose deaths.
California-Grown Cannabis To Be Judged At Next State Fair
California’s state fair has struggled with two years of COVID cancellations. But planning is already underway for next year’s event.
And among the livestock and food competitions, there will be a new award handed out for top pot. We’re getting answers on just how the cannabis competition will be judged.
Major US Cities Becoming Fentanyl-Infested Cesspools As Millions Plunge Into Hopelessness & Despair
If you live near a major U.S. city, you don’t have to go to a movie theater to see a horror show. Instead, just find out where fentanyl-laced heroin is being sold and go hang out with the drug addicts for a few hours. If you survive the encounter, it will be an experience that you will never forget. In city after city, hopelessly addicted men and women wander the streets of our core urban areas like zombies. Unfortunately, many of them won’t last very long because it is exceptionally easy to die from a fentanyl overdose. As you will see below, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. were up 30 percent last year, and fentanyl was the main reason.
And where does the fentanyl come from?
Rhode Island legalizes heroin injection sites based on failed Canadian models
As cities across the US reject legalized heroin injection sites and needle exchanges, the Rhode Island General Assembly has passed legislation to open the first injection sites in the US. The bill would authorize a two-year pilot program to create harm reduction centers, which is another term for heroin injection sites.
Drug-impaired driving jumped 43% in first full year after Canada legalized cannabis
“Drug-impaired driving is significantly under detected,” Statistics Canada wrote in a report called Impaired Driving in Canada, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “Drugs may be involved as often, or maybe more often, than alcohol in impaired driving incidents.”
Free heroin, cocaine and meth handed out outside of the Vancouver Police Department
Advocates for a safe supply of drugs handed out heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine outside the Vancouver Police Department Wednesday (July 14) afternoon.
Study: Smoking weed linked to aggression
Investigators at King’s College in London followed 411 males between the ages of eight and fifty-six years old beginning in 1953 observing them for over 50 years for the purpose of assessing the connection between long-term cannabis use and violence. Violence was defined by two outcomes: criminal convictions and self-reported data.
Chinese Mafia biggest Importer of Methamphetamine to British Columbia
Asian organized crime has never been this prevalent on an international scale. Like in the historical West, crime revolved around gangs and thugs. But globalization, economical and political changes in the mid-20th century in China and Asia-Pacific created conditions for a new form of organized crime: transnational organized crime.
Transnational organized crime is characterized by cross-border activities. Stiff bureaucracy, tunnel-visioning on economic growth and the flexibility of transnational crime syndicates, has made it insanely hard to combat organized crime.