Ultimately the province needs to come to grips with the reasons people use unregulated drugs, which can be intergenerational violence, trauma, chronic injury and disease, and struggles due to inequality, Geoff Meggs, former Vancouver city councillor and chief of staff to former NDP premier John Horgan, told The Tyee.

“Until we recognize that and recognize how hard it is to stop them once they start, we’re not going to make any headway,” Meggs said. Illicit drugs are causing a staggering amount of suffering and death, while enormously benefiting organized crime, he added

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Cons on the bad weather on the Island and Vancouver. "Oh it's all coming together. Those pesky good people won't stop me."

This was honestly the biggest disappointment with the NDP. They were moving in the right direction...albeit far too slowly for it to be truly effective...and then they just caved to conservative voters and their bigotry again.