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  That's why ome country, I think it's sweden?, Actually has clinics where someone who wants to do heroin can go and do it in a sanitary environment with a clean needle. They will offer them rehab of they want, but not force it.
context: That headline misses the “new” part of the news. Vancouver not charging people for possessing personal amounts of drugs is already how it’s worked for a long time so there’s no change there. The new thing that starts tomorrow is that the Federal government has now decriminalized this for the entire Province of British Columbia. So it’s every police force in BC other than Vancouver that’s embarking on something new. >
  
  Hopefully this will progress to provincial health coverage >
  
  In Canada... that is actually in the realm of the possible.
  Decrim alone can create as many problems as it solves. Decreased enforcement has to be accompanied by increased treatment, intervention... you need to put more people on the job, no substitute.