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A store selling psychedelics in Windsor, Ont. Recent police raids on psychedelics stores in Vancouver reflect misplaced attitudes toward drug regulation. (Shutterstock)

Raids on magic mushroom dispensaries are a knee-jerk reaction, but taking a blind-eye approach only allows the market to run wild

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, University of Toronto

Psychedelics are an opportunity to do better than our past drug control strategies. Adults should be trusted to make the right decisions, but policymakers should ensure they do so fully informed.
A man waits to enter a supervised consumption site at a health centre in Calgary, Alta., in August 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

In B.C., Alberta and around the world, forcing drug users into treatment is a violent policy

Tyson Singh Kelsall, Simon Fraser University; Alya Govorchin, Simon Fraser University, and Lyana Patrick, Simon Fraser University

Instead of forcing people into substance use treatment, provinces should work with municipalities and health boards to expand life-saving safe use sites and tackle the housing crisis.
A man runs past shoes hung on the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver in remembrance of victims of illicit drug overdoses on International Overdose Awareness Day in August 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Decriminalizing hard drugs in B.C. will help reduce the stigma of substance abuse

Sara Gordon, University of British Columbia

Decriminalization helps recharacterize drug addiction as a chronic health condition instead of a criminal activity, reduces the stigma associated with drug use and improves treatment options.

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  1. British Columbia
  2. Decriminalization
  3. Drugs
  4. drug treatment
  5. Human rights
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  7. Opioid crisis
  8. Substance use
  9. Substance use disorder

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