Alberta’s Kenney Questions Federal-BC Drug Decriminalization Plan

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he has considerations in regards to the federal authorities’s resolution to decriminalize possession of small quantities of unlawful medicine in British Columbia.

Kenney says the choice is a “slippery slope” and is counter-productive to fixing the dual issues of illicit medicine and serving to these get well from dependancy.

Beneath this system, British Columbians who possess as much as 2.5 grams of illicit medicine for private use won’t be arrested or charged beginning early subsequent 12 months.

It’s a part of the province’s request for an exemption from Canada’s drug legal guidelines following a file variety of overdose deaths.

Kenney says different provinces ought to have been consulted first, notably subsequent door in Alberta.

He says the transfer additionally violates a promise from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to not undertake such motion.

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