Canadian Province Breaks Multiple Overdose Records One Month after Decriminalizing All Drugs

(LifeSiteNews) Seven years after the province of British Columbia declared the drug epidemic a public health emergency, and just one month after the decriminalization of all drugs, overdoses continue to skyrocket.

According to the Canadian Press, B.C. tragically set three new overdose records this March, just the second month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government allowed the province to decriminalize all drugs starting February 1, 2023, in an effort to combat the crisis.

In March, B.C. saw the most overdose calls ever recorded in one day (205), the highest 30-day overdose call average (119.9), and the most days in a row where paramedics were called to 100 or more such calls (19).

Declaring the uptick in overdoses a public health emergency on April 14, 2016, recent statistics show that annual deaths have nearly quintupled since the government began ramping up its intervention… to continue reading, click here.


This article was written by Jack Bingham and posted at LifeSite News

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2 thoughts on “Canadian Province Breaks Multiple Overdose Records One Month after Decriminalizing All Drugs

  1. Wokeism = Death

    Canada is the Wokeist country in the world, and America is not far behind. Yet most of the Church is still asleep.

  2. What’s the problem here? They are getting exactly what they asked for.

    Unfortunately the cost is measured in human lives that will spend their eternity away from God and in darkness. Is there any way responsibility for this can be brought back onto the idiots that passed this vote in the legislature?

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