British Columbia to recriminalize hard drugs

Health Minister Josie Osborne announced Wednesday that the Canadian province will let a program that decriminalized hard drug use expire at the end of the month. “The pilot hasn’t delivered the results that we hoped for,” she said. The province operated the first government-supervised injection site in the world and allowed possession and use of up to 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and mdma. The expiration of this “pioneering” program shows that letting people have drugs is not the way to win the war on drugs.