Jason, you've been talking a lot about Canada.. Why did you leave this part out?

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

holy shitballs. doesn't free heroin just put off the fentanyl usage until another day?

[–]Node 3 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

It's okay, they're not official logicians.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fentanyl usage isn't as big of a problem when people know it's fentanyl. The problem comes when someone like Tom Petty goes and gets a oxycodone for his broken hip and surprise! It's really fent, and it's much stronger than he was expecting. Making pharmaceutically controlled drugs available would drastically reduce overdose deaths.

[–]goobandit 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It’s funny how Vice always does these pro-legalization videos and only shows the grittiest areas full of tweaked out, grimy people. The guy feels that drug use is similar to alcohol use, took it upon himself to test, label, and distribute the shit, and Vice is like oh fuck yeah, homeless people, ambulances, thanks “Crack Cloud” for the footage!

[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The irony is that Gas Town is not only seedy but it's also very expensive and trendy. The animation studio I was directing at was down there and my bus stop was at the worst corner in Vancouver. For two years I never once had a problem.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

Free drugs is not new, though the Cocaine is. Makes me wish I was back there. I could also cry about my ketamine needing to be pure too, and maybe...?

Not as much as Portugal, Vancouver has been progressive in trying to actually help addicts rather than demonize them. Their self-harming addiction is only the symptom of deeper trauma, not the cause. What are they escaping from?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Their self-harming addiction is only the symptom of deeper trauma, not the cause.

What are they escaping from?

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

Great series. I don't get how it relates.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I don't get how it relates.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Explosive.

[–]Node 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

"I'm almost confident everyone I know will die"

He says of the people he supplies with illegal drugs. It's like they're oblivious to the connection with the drugs, and the wreck those people have made of their lives and their area of the city.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The drugs are the symptom, not the cause.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Active addiction leads to death one way or another, fent contamination in the black market drug supply ends those lives a whole lot sooner.

[–]Node 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Thank you, China. Although now it's less contamination than the offered product. Very likely to become even more prevalent if the Taliban continue their anti-opium policies.

As for 'free drugs', I wouldn't oppose camps set up for addicts where they could take all the drugs they want. Free drugs, but you can't go back out and contaminate society. It would be like an assisted suicide camp they would enjoy, up until the end.

We have marijuana stores here, and shrooms are decriminalized, but addictive drugs are too compelling for some percentage of users. For them, there would be a place to go as their life falls apart and they can't afford to buy on the street anymore. Food, shelter, and free drugs until they finally break free from this life.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

🎶 Take me down to Paradise City where the drugs are free and the girls are iffy. 🎶

[–]Node 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

the girls are iffy

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

5 days later I recreated this iconic meme.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Free drugs, but you can't go back out and contaminate society. It would be like an assisted suicide camp they would enjoy, up until the end.

I might consider it if I didn't already know all governments lie and break their promises.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Agreed, although maybe better than life as a street addict. Otherwise, not all that appealing.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can tell you from personal experience, drugs get boring without purpose and fulfillment. Just experiencing is not enough. Engagement and action and doing is necessary. And substantial actions for meaningful purpose require planning and thought, which is difficult or impossible if impaired.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

/u/JasonCarswell

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the ping!

[–]Riva 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5648094

The safe injection site in my city doubled overdose deaths in less than a year.