Legalize and prescribe drugs

It sounds extreme, but what could be more extreme than four British Columbians dying every day because of a contaminated drug supply? That’s why drug user organizations such as the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users want not only more readily available prescription heroin — a proven harm reduction treatment endorsed by B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer — but an end to drug prohibition laws they say have let organized drug crime to essentially get away with murder. Portugal decriminalized hard drugs, for instance, a proposal echoed by Mothers Stop the Harm founder Leslie McBain, whose son died of an overdose.