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Legal limbo: BC NDP wait for Feds to recriminalize public drug use

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Written By Keith Norbury
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Reacting to public backlash and stymied in its attempts to restrict illicit drug use, the B.C. provincial government backtracked on decriminalization last week, asking the federal government to make public…

Safe supply now part of organized crime business, says BC RCMP commander

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Written By Fran Yanor
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B.C. and federal government-funded safer supply drugs are being sold into the illicit drug market and trafficked in multiple B.C. communities by organized crime, the commanding officer of the province’s…

Prescription drug transactions seen outside drugstores in five BC cities

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Written By Fran Yanor
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Three weeks after the Eby government pushed back against allegations safer supply diversion was a widespread problem, a RCMP surveillance operation revealed trafficking of safer supply pharmaceuticals outside a Prince…

RCMP gag order issued after BC NDP catch heat for diverted safe…

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Written By Fran Yanor
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In the wake of several high-profile police drug seizures of suspected safer supply that put the BC NDP government on the defensive last month, BC RCMP “E” division issued a…