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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.

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 or criminal consequences if they were carrying less than 2.5 grams of heroin, fentanyl, meth or any of the other illicit drugs covered by the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Police were not even allowed to seize the drugs

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