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NANAIMO, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) — Cards telling kids how to consume hard drugs were handed out at a school-sanctioned pro-LGBT event in British Columbia last week.
According to CHEK News, during a June 24 “pride” event at Departure Bay Park on Vancouver Island, booths were handing out informational cards instructing children on how to use narcotics.
“Why would somebody have these materials on offer with children and youth around, especially some of the most vulnerable youth in our community?” Nanaimo mother Ruth Taylor told the outlet, which is based out of Victoria.
The event was organized by the secondary schools’ Gay Straight Alliance clubs and sponsored by teacher volunteers.
According to Taylor, who attended the event with her 10-year-old child, the booth run by AIDS Vancouver Island featured cards with information on how to use drugs such as Methamphetamine, Ecstacy and Cocaine.
The cards were reportedly designed by DanceSafe, an organization which claims it “promotes health and safety within music and nightlife communities.”
“Always start on the lowest end and work your way up until you find your dose,” Taylor told CHEK News while reading from one of the cards explaining how to use GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), a drug commonly used to drug rape victims.
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When Taylor voiced her concerns to the three adults running the AVI table, the representatives “were not receptive to what I was saying, and the cards stayed for the remainder of the event. They never took them down.”
AVI told local media that the cards were not intended for young children as the group expected the event to be for older children. The group did not explain why they were advertising drug use to minors in the first place.
“This is not harm reduction,” an upset Taylor declared. “This is the proliferation of harm … you’re literally handing out materials that describe in great detail how to do drugs to elementary school children. It’s shocking.”
School administrators quickly apologized for the cards, saying, “We do take responsibility that we didn’t have oversight into exactly the materials that were being handed out, so we’re looking at our internal processes and going forward for vetting external organizations when they come to such events.”
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Drug use in British Columbia has become rampant thanks to lax policies and the province’s “safe supply” program which decriminalized certain drugs. The policies have proved so disastrous that the British Columbia government asked the federal government to re-criminalize narcotic use in public spaces, a request that was granted.
According to British Columbia’s official data from 2023, the year the Liberal government decriminalized hard drug use, the province saw “the largest number of drug-related deaths ever reported to the agency,” hitting a tragic total of 2,511 deaths.
The effects of decriminalization in various parts of Canada have been exposed by some media outlets. Two documentaries, Aaron Gunn’s Canada is Dying and U.K. Telegraph journalist Steven Edginton’s mini-documentary Canada’s Woke Nightmare: A Warning to the West, detail the grim reality of the drug crisis, particularly in British Columbia.
