How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world

border_humper · Monday at 6:57 AM

https://archive.is/2025.08.26-235514/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/vancouver-opioid-crisis-drug-addiction-british-columbia-canada/

But a landmark experiment to decriminalise the possession of certain drugs in public – including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, and ecstasy – has allowed an opioid crisis to take hold that surpasses even the epidemic in the United States.

In April, David Eby, British Columbia’s premier announced that halfway into the three-year trial, the province would recriminalise drug use in public spaces.

With a severe backlash from police, politicians, and the public showing no sign of abating, Mr Eby is now under pressure to scrap the pilot scheme altogether.

At least we’re #1 in something.

d01tg0d0wn · Monday at 8:53 AM

Meanwhile they profit from the sale of the drugs and the services to provide the drugs

they are working hand in hand with the cartels i would assume at this point

FreedomTruth · Monday at 6:41 PM

For anyone interested in deep dives on this, found a substack focused on shining a light on the cartels and drugs in Canada.
For example:

A Decade Later: $500K Forfeited, 20 Vancouver Properties Still in Legal Limbo in Case Connecting Sam Gor–Linked Suspect to Child Kidnapping Attempt and Trudeau Meeting

VANCOUVER — On October 15, 2015, as one team of RCMP officers stormed a bulletproof-glass-protected office inside a Richmond business tower, another team, just two kilometres away, entered a luxury condominium on Brighouse Way.

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