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How colonialism created the ‘drug user’ the world over

Drug prohibition was imposed by colonial power from Pender St. to Punjab. Now, drug regulation must be uncoupled from colonial and carceral power to end its violence.

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DRUG USER LIBERATION FRONT TO PURSUE CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE, ANNOUNCES FUNDRAISER

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Hoop dreams are everything

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‘Decrim’ used as tool of dehumanization by Vancouver Police

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Decriminalization or police mission creep? Police involvement in BC's decriminalization framework

Decrim has been criticized for embedding policing within it, including in determining drug quantities during interactions, and conducting social service referrals through the distribution of resource cards; and directing police to target people working in the unregulated drug markets.

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DRUG USER LIBERATION FRONT TO PURSUE CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE, ANNOUNCES FUNDRAISER

The founders of DULF, Jeremy and Eris, were arrested in October 2023 after their compassion club showed extremely promising results. Crown has decided to pursue charges.

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Empty words for toxic theatre

Five terms currently being used to create theatre and panic to distract from the toxic drug emergency in British Columbia.

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“The message is clear, First Nations lives are disposable.” Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs on lack of accountability for BC police who kill

The shape and level of police violence in BC is both common and unclear - calls for inquiries and accountability are growing again.

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Cops on campus: Why police crackdowns on student protesters are dangerous

The recent violent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses across North America have reignited the debate about the role of cops on university grounds.

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Eby: BC NDP decrim amendment request will exclude people who call ambulance on themselves at home

Eby states people overdosing who call ambulances on themselves won't be criminalized

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Hoop dreams are everything

Book review of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

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‘Decrim’ used as tool of dehumanization by Vancouver Police

The BC Association of Police Chiefs, VPD and other police forces seemed to have pounced on another public relations opportunity to use drug laws to their advantage – this time, through a campaign of dehumanization.

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In BC, Alberta and around the world, forced drug use treatment is violence

After years of housing crises, an increasingly toxic drug supply & inaccessible voluntary mental health supports, political actors are toying with the idea of making the people most affected by inequality and poverty simply disappear.

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Situating Vancouver's Nonprofit Industrial Complex

By partnering with police & other appendages of the surveillance state, nonprofit staff may experience normalized psycho-affective attachments to spatial-carceral colonial violence...

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BC’s "decriminalization" framework was set up to fail

The province’s pilot decriminalization project is unfolding as predicted, but the premier’s latest proposal would only make the crisis worse.

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