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Barely a year after B.C. Premier David Eby was still fiercely defending drug decriminalization as a critical means to save lives, he told a Vancouver crowd last week that the endeavour was a mistake.

“I was wrong … it was not the right policy,” Eby told a luncheon organized by the Urban Development Institute.

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Following Eby’s swearing-in as premier in November 2022, one of his first major acts was to oversee the province’s decriminalization of personal-use possession of illicit drugs.

Starting on Jan. 31, 2023, drug users in B.C. no longer faced arrest

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