Colin Johnson, co-chair of the Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance — a grassroots organization composed of front-line workers, researchers and people who use drugs — said the group was “despondent” to see Ottawa’s refusal late Friday to grant Toronto’s request to decriminalize drug possession for personal use.
Colin Johnson, co-chair of the Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance — a grassroots organization composed of frontline workers, researchers and people who use drugs — said the group was “despondent” to see Ottawa’s refusal late Friday to grant Toronto’s request to decriminalize drug possession for personal use.
Federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks said Friday in rejecting Toronto’s proposal to decriminalize personal drug possession that the city’s proposal ‘does not adequately protect public health and maintain public safety.’
Toronto’s proposal ‘does not adequately protect public health and maintain public safety’ said federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister
In a statement Friday, Toronto’s medical officer of health Eileen de Villa defended decriminalization as an “evidence-informed policy tool to help remove barriers to care.”
On the streets of Victoria, addicts and those who care about them have mixed feelings about the return of criminalization, and they have a warning
The Toronto Board of Health’s push to legalize illicit drugs — following the disastrous pilot project in British Columbia — would have only made