Looks like everyone’s favourite unrighteous dude, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is saying it was a “misunderstanding” dude that caused a British Columbia-based company to say Health Canada granted it permission to produce, sell, and distribute cocaine.

Trudeau told reporters in Winnipeg on March 3 that he was “as surprised” as B.C. Premier David Eby when he heard that the company Adastra Holdings Ltd., which produces marijuana for adult use and medical sales out of its headquarters in Langley, B.C., announced on Feb. 22 that it was permitted by Health Canada to “legally possess, produce, sell and distribute” cocaine especially since to the best of his knowledge no Liberal insiders had ownership of the company!

The company said in a news release that it had been granted a Health Canada amendment to its controlled substance dealer’s licence on Feb. 17. Maybe they shouldn’t have mentioned the “misunderstanding” publicly, huh?

Eby first responded to the company’s statement on March 2, saying he was “astonished” that Health Canada would grant the amendment and that his government would be contacting Health Canada for answers.

“I was as surprised as the premier of British Columbia was to see that company was talking about selling cocaine on the open market or commercializing it,” Trudeau said on March 3.
“There are limited and very restricted permissions for certain pharmaceutical companies to use that substance for research purposes and for very specific narrowly prescribed medical purposes, but it is not a permission to sell it commercially or provide it on an open market.”
Well not at least until we can cut big pharma in on the action, all right Justin didn’t’ say it but c’mon we all know he was thinking it!

The prime minister said his government is actively addressing the issue, well that makes at least one issue he’s actively addressing.
“We are working very quickly with this company to correct their misunderstanding that their press release has caused,” he said, adding that decriminalizing the commercial sale of cocaine “is not something that this government is looking at furthering.”
Furthering of course not, I mean why would they want to do such a thing, this would only lead to more addiction and dependence, further harming existing addicts and creating a whole bunch of new ones. All of whom would ultimately become dependant on big government for their survival, effectively making them wards of the state, without any voice. Yeah, further absolutely not!

In case you didn’t know it, B.C. (Best Cannabis, Crack and Cocaine) decriminalized possession of up to 2.5 grams of certain hard drugs, including cocaine, beginning on Jan. 31 following Health Canada’s approval of three-year experimental decriminalization exemption program back in May 2022.

So what was the logic behind this, well according to Federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett she touted that B.C.’s decriminalization plan will reduce “the stigma, the fear, and shame that keep people who use drugs silent about their use, or using alone.”
Makes sense they should be able to shout out about their drug use, I mean after all what’s pride for if we can’t shout proudly about our drug use and ending using alone, makes sense to me, I mean when you overdose, someone’s got to call 911!

In 2022, B.C. had an average of over six people dying from drug overdoses every day, and over 11,000 people in the province have died from illicit drug overdoses since the provincial government declared a public health emergency in 2016. So granted my math may be a bit off here, but given it’s now 2023 and the public health emergency was declared in 2016, that’s 7 years according to white imperialist math, 11,000 deaths have happened during this time due to drug overdoses, that’s 1571 deaths per year on average. But recent numbers are over 6 deaths per day, not sure why they can’t tell us how much over 6, but for now let’s just use 6 and multiplying by 365 days in a year, that’s 2,190 overdose deaths per year. 2190 seems to be higher than what we’ve been averaging thus far 1,571 deaths per year, yep seems like another stellar example of government policies working!

Federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre has criticized the decriminalization policy, saying the solution to the issue of addiction is “more treatment and recovery,” rather than “more poison.”
Science denier, c’mon Pierre doubling down on stupid policies worked so well when it came to Covid!

Both Trudeau and Justice Minister David Lametti have said Ottawa has no plans for a national drug decriminalization policy.
I mean how could they, given they’re still waiting for input from all the stakeholders, you know big pharma and the drug cartels!