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Impact of the first year of British Columbia's decriminalization of drug possession for personal use on drug crime in Canada.
Adrienne Gaudreault, Maya Gibb, Robert Talarico, Benedikt Fischer, Wayne Hall, Daniel T Myran
Published: 202510.1016/j.drugpo.2025.105042
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In August 2020, the Government of Canada advised federal prosecutors to divert simple drug cases from the criminal justice system, and on January 31, 2023, the province of British Columbia (B.C.) initiated a temporary decriminalization po…
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