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Where the parties stand on drugs and crime

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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