Months before British Columbia sought to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot project, the federal government’s own polling suggested to officials that a majority of Canadians believed the policy would lead to an increase in overdoses. The results of the 11-page survey by the Privy Council Office, the wing of federal bureaucracy that supports the Prime Minister’s Office, also suggests Canadians were split over whether decriminalization would make their community any less safe. “I guess what people are thinking is that [decriminalization] will somehow enable drug use,” said Thomas Kerr, aRead more