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Originally Posted by activeStick

Just saw a news story on Global News Vancouver about how teens are now accessing Vancouver's safe supply, which addicts get for free with a prescription from finger print verification vending machines. Teens buy them off the streets to experiment with and addicts sell them to buy from the streets.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9433341/d...outh-concerns/

But some people working in the recovery sector say kids aged 16 and 17 are getting their hands on the product coming out of the machines.

“Their friends and them are accessing safe supply because they want to use it recreationally and they know, relatively, that it’s safer than the alternative,” Jessica Cooksey, director of operations with the Last Door Recovery Centre, told Global News.

“It’s good people know how to access a safe supply, but it also exposes people to have access that wouldn’t necessarily have readily access,” she said.


At the 12:00 mark. Buried in a hilarious blockage of ads.

https://globalnews.ca/video/9434507/...6-bc-jan-24-2/