47 Replies to “The Thing I like Best About Harm Reduction Programs”

  1. So right off the bat: a lie. Hard drugs are not legal in Vancouver, they are just decriminalized.

    None of the Very Bad Things in the video are a result of decriminalization. These issues are seen in lots of other places that still (immorally) criminalize drug use. The problem is 100% purely a housing shortage issue caused by various local laws like zoning. West Virginia has tons and tons of drug use and very little homelessness because there is no shortage of housing.

      1. That of course, is a stupid comparison. Cats breed more cats. Drugs don’t create more druggies (and even if they did, more druggies isn’t the problem in Vancouver, homelessness is).

        2. Just as joblessness is.

          One could find other words that correlate highly to junkies.

          But drugs is the root of the problem – period. And effectively decriminalizing drugs definitely creates more junkies, and makes existing ones worse.

          1. No, drugs is not remotely the root of the problem or a problem at all. West Virginia has tons of drugs and little homelessness.

        3. Make it make sense when a big percentage of these people came to Vancouver specifically for the drug scene. Housing was not and is not their priority. homelessness is the dumbest argument anyone can make for what is happening in Vancouver and almost all other cities in North America. Some are just way worse do to local laws and policies surrounding drug use.

          1. Nothing you said really counters what I said. Come for the drug scene, remain homeless because because no one has built SROs in decades.

    2. Yes, if all these junkies were smoking meth in their rent controlled, rent stabilized, government funded housing … the streets would look a lot cleaner. The problem would be out of sight, out of mind. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Get these junkies a room. Problem solved.

      I am constantly amazed at either people’s stupidity … or cognizant dissonance.

      1. Yes, guff about rent stabilization/control/government funding aside. Let people do their thing out of sight out of mind.

  2. When legalizing narcotics was all the craze back in the 2010s, I knew that a wave of destruction and addiction would be the consequence, and here we are.

    Because families getting ripped apart, desperate junkies robbing passerbys and gangs fighting over drug turf are all “victimless crimes” as we were told then.

    1. Narcotics weren’t legalized, hence all the problems you just listed. The drug warrior forever blames others for the consequences of his idiotic ideas. Further, the opioid epidemic is really the fentanyl epidemic. Fentanyl is abundant because other opiates are illegal and fentanyl much easier to smuggle. Legalize heroin = end the fentanyl epidemic.

      1. And let the junkies propagate until the Chairman Mao solution looks really good.

        I’m totally done with drug libertarians like you.

        1. …what? Junkies don’t ‘propagate’ anymore than alkies. Addiction is not a contagious disease.

          1. Nobody tries smack on thier own. First time is always with friends or older siblings. Therefore, junkies create more junkies.

          3. Being a junkie is a choice nonetheless. One that should be respected. It still isn’t ‘transmissible’.

          4. The far-left agenda to effectively-decriminalize drugs, despite what is written, caused all of the problems everyone sane is pointing out.

            And those who imbibe in what should continue to be illegal drugs should also face the consequences of the criminal activity they ALL engage in. And other enabling organizations such as the Mustard Seed should be shut down permanently.

            If someone were foolish enough to get wrecked from drugs and spent a single night in the cold and without food, they’d get their best chance to never return to where they fell.

            But instead our far-left politicians ensure the police do not enforce drug-related activities including the 24/7 drug-dealing taking place virtually out in the open to keep the massive drug inflow happening.

          5. “caused all of the problems everyone sane is pointing out.”

            No it didn’t. Portugal decriminalized these drugs back in 2001 and is no worse for it. These problems in Vancouver and elsewhere precede any drug decriminalization by decades.

            Look I get it: you not like thing. Therefore, thing bad and you mad unless government smash thing. None of your stupid sentiments should be my problem. It is not my obligation to indulge your dumb prejudices. It is my right to do and deal hard drugs.

          6. @UnMe – “It still isn’t ‘transmissible’.”

            The subsequent crime is transmissible.

            They don’t want to participate in society, and society doesn’t want to participate with deadbeats – easy solution is banishment. Any remote island will do.

  3. Most of the rampant destruction is caused by the needles for junkies program, where an insignificantly tiny number of those on the far-left of the political spectrum (like always) stole money from taxpayers to essentially give to junkies, as well as provide a source of funding for those enabling them.

    As was obvious from Day 1, drug use skyrocketed, followed shortly by vandalism, break-ins, assaults, and the degradation of society. It is now common to have druggies sleeping in parkade stairwells, security in malls virtually dedicated to druggies, as well as the stench of urine throughout the downtown core, and not just after a late Friday night.

    This imbecilic program was already piloted in the usual far-left centers with disastrous (and entirly predictable) results, so of course they lied to us that it was a resounding success, and deceptively renamed this idiocy “harm-reduction”, when in reality it does the reverse, and in spades.

    Also as usual, the POSs behind this program now need more money to ensure its success. Calgary’s previous homosexual, communist, fraudulently elected POS mayor Naheed Nenshi likewise wasted a fortune of other peoples’ money on ending poverty. This was so obviously impossible on its face, and predictably only wasted money, and homelessness is now higher than ever before.

    Although the “workers” involved in these programs are the usual suspects – low IQ, far-left, unionized NDP zombies, those behind them are not. They know full well what they are doing.

  4. The only people in favour of safe injection sites are those that don’t actually have to live and deal with the consequences. Sort of like most other fashionable lefty ideas.

  5. The fentanyl comes from China. This is China’s revenge for the Century of Humiliation, their payback for the Opium Wars and aftermath.

  6. Does the idiot in the video know that the decriminalization policy is province-wide? Because it hasn’t stopped Victoria and the surrounding environs from absolutely bopping. Construction cranes everywhere, new buildings everywhere. Southern Vancouver Island is some of the most exciting real estate on the continent.

    1. Thank the influx of Chi-Com money, as well as money printed out of nothing from the privately-owned yet publicly-sounding counterfeiters, the Bank of Canada, and given to their well-connected friends to “invest”.

      Which causes housing prices to skyrocket.

      1. Prosperity is prosperity nonetheless. That money could go anywhere and it’s going to Victoria because Victoria has become surprisingly pro-building stuff over the past 10 years.

    2. You haven’t been to the ZOMBIE ZONE on Pandora, IDIOT. The mess is alive and well….in Victoria, in Nanaimo, in Duncan, in Penticton, in Kelowna, etc, etc, etc.

      You continue to show how out of touch and ignorant the left is.

  7. What I can’t comprehend is this: with so many kind-hearted socialists with big houses in the Greater Vancouver Area, why do we have all this “homelessness” that is apparently the root cause of all this misery?

    1. Because of zoning and the ALR. “Neighborhood character” and ruralism are more dangerous than any drug.

      1. “Because of zoning and the ALR.”

        Nawwww. That’s not it.

        There’s nothing in any bylaw or provincial legislation/regulation preventing anyone from sharing their home with a druggie.

  8. I don’t suppose Trudeau visited the lower East side on his recent trip to Van. But why not? He needs a taste of he reality his policies are causing.

  9. UnMe is the Devil’s Advocate.

    UnMe has definitely succeeded in advocating for the Devil and for Hell on this Earth.

  11. This is a problem that eventually solves itself. A crackhead is found dead in an alley? Nobody forced him to put that first in his arm and I no longer GAS.

    1. “This is a problem that eventually solves itself. A crackhead is found dead in an alley? Nobody forced him to put that first in his arm and I no longer GAS.”

      That *should* be the case, and it used to be, before someone got the ridiculous idea to create ‘safe injection sites’ to keep junkies and crackheads alive. God help you if you live near one.

  12. Drug addicts and chronic alcoholics as a rule do not want stable housing….to many rules.

    They choose to be homeless and live on the streets where nobody can tell them what to do.

    And…we can no longer legally force them off their choices that kill them and destroy society.

    1. “And…we can no longer legally force them off their choices that kill them and destroy society.”

      And therein lies the real root of the problem: enabling and supporting illegal drug use, as many jurisdictions have done, but *without* the option of mandatory rehab, as those jurisdictions with successful programs DO have. It is mentioned in the video, I believe.

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