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applegrove

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3. It is a whole generation who are going down. Those people

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:33 AM

Jan 2023

who say things like that will depend on this agegroup to fund their pensions and cpp when they retire and get old. I knew a girl on methadone. She was a great employee at a call center. She would just step out to the pharmacy at lunch then go on about her productive life. Crime has been reduced by this policy. Less crime, more people to pay into the system when they have a healthy recovery. Win win

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B.C. will begin a three-year decriminalization experiment, allowing drug users 18 and over to carry [View all] applegrove Jan 2023 OP

They haven't been arresting people with small amounts since 2020. applegrove Jan 2023 #1

I'm astonished at the number of BC residents who think this is a bad thing. Fiendish Thingy Jan 2023 #2

It is a whole generation who are going down. Those people applegrove Jan 2023 #3