#Decriminalization

Weed legalization/decriminalization delayed AGAIN. Technical issue with the decrim bill. Murphy wants to sign the legalization and decrim bills at once. But that's unlikely to happen ahead of a legislative
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Thinking about the opioid crisis and the government's plan for addressing it, and drugs more generally: the government has been in power since 2015. We are repeatedly told that decriminalization,
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New research paper on overdose risk and social determinants of health affirms what we've been saying all along: Criminalization increases overdose risk! We MUST decriminalize drugs to save lives and
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We wrote this piece in the spring after BC's Chief Public Health doctor officially recommended decriminalization of drug possession. A @globeandmail editorial followed in support.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/articl
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CREA & #CommonHealth are excited to share takeaways from a 3-part #webinar series on #Decriminalization of #Abortion in India. Watch the trailer -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beeWfoAudr0 Stay tuned as we, over the next
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Its easier to believe fear mongering than it is facts, we understand. But again, google, its free. I promise. The facts are not nearly as scary as the boogy man
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"If the Liberals tried to decriminalize drugs they'd lose the election" is a hypothesis that centrists are risking and losing lives by assuming is true. Now, as health experts, advocates,
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If you like watching porn, or if you like having a modicum of privacy rights on the internet, or if you like 1st Amendment rights, everything sex workers have been
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"Jai jai shiv shankar, kaata laage na kankar, ke pyaala tere naam ka piya..."NCB: In boyhood, bollywood movies made "charas ganja" sound like evil poison and I once asked my
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Our drug laws hurt the very people we want to help, and they are in urgent need of reform.Here's my opening speech in support of Bill C-236. I hope it
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I continue to see the term "decriminalization" being used in many different ways in #drugpolicy discussionsAs debates about reforming drug possession laws heat up in North America and elsewhere, we
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Thread:I have spent last hour reading the devil in the details of Bill 22 – the federal govt's major criminal justice reform with proposed amendments to the Criminal Code and the Controlled
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People think I'm promoting the "happy hooker" narrative, that all sex workers love their job, theyre all doing this out of their own free will, theyre all enjoying it etc.I'm
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no. the minister inquired about seeking. seems like they're coming in from the outside lane as we gear up to do this for real in Vancouver, as if they're really
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Sure, you know is Q Anon nonsense, but do you also know that the much broader hysteria over sex trafficking is basically made up? It’s an “epidemic” that mostly doesn’t
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Drug courts are not: - an "alternative to incarceration;" - a substitute for all drug decriminalization; - a panacea; or- a "public health" approach. I was a drug court representative
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