Thu Aug 19, 2021 – 2:04 pm EDT
CANADA (LifeSiteNews) – A task force established by Canada’s Minister of Health to investigate the current drug crisis has officially recommended that all illegal drugs be decriminalized and that there be an “end [to] all coercive measures related to simple possession and consumption.”
The 33-page report, the first of two released this past spring by the Health Canada Expert Task Force on Substance Use, lists six recommendations to lead Canada in the “unprecedented and tragic drug toxicity crisis.” The Task Force was commissioned to provide expert advice on “alternatives to criminal penalties … with the goal of reducing the impacts of criminal sanctions on people who use drugs.”
The Expert Task Force gave eight recommendations which included not only decriminalization of the hard drugs, but also increasing the allowable amount for possession and for the possession limits to “be set high enough to account for the purchasing and consumption habits of all people who use drugs.”
Further, the Expert Task Force is recommending that all past drug infractions and criminal records “be fully expunged,” meaning “complete deletion, automatic, and cost-free.”
The drug crisis, the report explained, has “escalated
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