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The City of Vancouver on Monday took another step in an ongoing revolution in Canadian drug policy, as it outlined plans for decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs within municipal boundaries.
Last November, city council backed a plan to ask for an exemption from federal drug laws. Ottawa agreed to talks in January and Vancouver made its first submission in March. Monday’s filing detailed what level of “personal possession” of drugs would be small enough to be treated as non-criminal. The proposal is for a supply equivalent to three days of use, such as two grams of opioids, or three grams of cocaine.
LETTER: Opioid crisis is a national emergency, says former Senator
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Former Senator Hugh Segal, responding to an OrilliaMatters series about the opioid crisis, says it s time to listen to current Senator Gwen Boniface, from Orillia, and decriminalize illegal substances.Supplied Photo
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As Brockville’s municipal drug strategy continues to take shape, city councillors were set to discuss two addiction-related motions at the committee level on Tuesday.
Council’s planning and operations committee was to deliberate on Tuesday afternoon on a motion to install six needle disposal boxes in city parks. A separate motion for the afternoon virtual meeting would also call on the federal government to make the overdose crisis a national public health emergency.
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The motions arise as the community continues to grapple with a spike in the number of overdoses, a problem exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives of a number of local agencies have been working on a municipal drug strategy to address this and other drug-related problems.
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