As B.C. begins it\u0027s three\u002Dear experiment, there\u0027s no agreement on how to decide whether drug decriminalization works
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B.C.’s chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, says she has hope on the eve of decriminalization, a policy change she’s advocated for years.Article content “It can’t all be focused on the number of deaths. Because I don’t believe we’re going to see a significant change in the short term. Those figures don’t bode well for B.C., said Elenore Sturko, the B.C. Liberal’s mental health and addictions critic and a former Surrey RCMP officer, considering the woefully inadequate number of publicly funded treatment beds across the province. B.C. also lacks a central database that could tell us how many people are waiting for treatment and where.
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fulfil his 2021 election promise to create a new mental health and addiction transfer payment to the provinces and territories.
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