karen ward VANDU Canadian Drug Policy Coalition Seems to me that City of Vancouver is banning and blaming legal #ButaneTorches for the illegal lack of minimum #fire protection that is endemic in so much of the govt-owned social housing in city's Downtown Eastside. #Vancouver #Scapegoating #Drug #users #again

Hey you!

Read this article from karen ward 👇

“Think of it this way: decriminalization (like criminalization) is a process. Social change doesn’t occur instantaneously with an exemption from a section of legislation, that’s ridiculous.”

#bcpoli

awkwardvancouver.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/dec…

You just granted a desicion that is going to kill people.

When overdose deaths and police violence inevitably rise, that blood will now also be on your hands.

We are deeply dismayed that recriminalization was accepted. This policy move is not evidence based. It was not developed 'hand in hand' with people with lived experience, or by Indigenous groups like UBCIC, BC First Nations Justice Council, or FNLC.

We will continue to oppose.