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Originally Posted by rubecube
It's still illegal to sell drugs on the street in B.C. Personal use is the only thing that's been decriminalized.
The RCMP is Helen Lovejoying the #### out of this because police love the easy arrests that addicts provide them. Is it bad that safe supply drugs are finding their way into the hands of street dealers? Sure. It's also still better if safe, clean drugs are being sold on the street vs. fentanyl-laced drugs.
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The point is that allowing people suffering from addiction to just run free with drug use and petty crime isn't the solution. That isn't the model that worked in Portugal. The correct model involves mandatory treatment, and consequences for not complying with that treatment.
Safe supply is good in theory and in limited circumstances. Just giving people suffering from addictions pure drugs to flip for cash so they can buy fentanyl (which is more powerful and often times more desired) isn't a working solution. If you are going to provide safe supply, it should be single doses that are administered on site and part of a mandatory treatment program.
The idea that someone using street drug cocktails of fentanyl, meth, and various other substances really just wants a pure supply of a less powerful drug is pretty detached from reality.