Coalition of drug user groups wants court to quash B.C. drug ‘recriminalization’

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The court application says the decision was made in ‘bad faith, for reasons of political expedience,’ and failed to consider Charter-protected rights of drug users

A coalition of drug user advocacy groups is taking the federal government to court, claiming the decision to recriminalize public drug possession in British Columbia puts users at increased risk of death.

The application says it was part of B.C.’s “action plan” on the toxic drug crisis to decriminalize drug possession by getting an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

 

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