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Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life (thetyee.ca)
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[–] garbagebagel 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

“There are always hand-to-hand transactions, from dealers to drug users to other drug users. It’s a constant exchange in the Downtown Eastside. It’s pretty common for people to pool their money to buy from a dealer and then those drugs get distributed.”

These hand-to-hand exchanges constitute trafficking, which would — under the proposed policy — subject every habitual fentanyl user to a punishment of life in prison

The article explains how the users are often also selling, and I disagree that those people (who are "redistributing") should be in jail, specifically for life.

The legislation would need to differentiate between redistributors who are users and like big, idk the term, wholesale drug dealers? But under PP's plan, anyone with 40 mg (according to the article that's less than half a baby aspirin) would go to jail for life for that.

It just doesn't make sense to me to jail drug users, even if they're just selling amongst themselves, and especially not for life where we have to pay for them in taxes.

[–] pixxelkick 1 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

according to the article that’s less than half a baby aspirin

It's also the equivalent of 20 to 40 entire doses

One dose of fentanyl laced in other drugs is usually less than a single grain of sand

So 40mg is a fuck tonne of fentanyl to have on hand.

Usually users don't carry pure fentanyl around, it's already been laced into other drugs, so they maybe have a couple mg total on hand even for multiple peoples worth.

40mg is like an entire box of laced pills.

[–] garbagebagel 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know for someone who is not used to fentanyl, a very very low dose can kill them, but again:

As harm reduction advocate Zoë Dodd noted, fentanyl is generally sold on the streets in 100-milligram increments.

“If you’re talking about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, fentanyl users are using a quarter gram [250 milligrams] or more a day,” according to Guy Felicella, a harm reduction and recovery advocate.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the article here, they're talking about people who carry a SHITLOAD of fentanyl for personal use.

[–] pixxelkick 1 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds insane, I'm having trouble believing someone is using 125x the lethal dose of fent a day, that sounds inhuman.

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