{"id":45357,"date":"2021-03-10T23:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=45357"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T16:49:58","slug":"majority-of-canadians-now-back-drug-decriminalization-support-highest-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/majority-of-canadians-now-back-drug-decriminalization-support-highest-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Canadians now back drug decriminalization, support highest in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nA new opinion poll has revealed a massive shift in public views around the drug poisoning emergency, with a solid majority of Canadians country-wide supporting the full decriminalization of all illicit drugs, according to the Angus Reid Institute.<\/p>\n<p>And that support is greatest in B.C., which has been the deadliest epicentre of a health crisis declared an emergency almost five years ago, said Angus Reid Institute research director Dave Korzinski in an interview with The Pulse on CFRO.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, of the more than 5,000 adults surveyed, 59 per cent said they support decriminalizing all illegal drugs. In B.C., that number rises to a full two-thirds of residents, the same supermajority of support that exists in the province for safe injection sites.<\/p>\n<p>Supervised consumption sites, though controversial in every city across the country, actually garnered 65 per cent support nationwide, suggesting opponents could be merely a loud and vocal minority. Only 45 per cent of the public believe the solution is \"getting tough\" on drug users, the lowest it's ever been.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. is also home to the most number of people who reporting losing someone they knew to an overdose, with more than one-in-ten saying someone they know died in the last five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball &#8212; A new opinion poll has revealed a massive shift in public views around the drug poisoning emergency, with a solid majority of Canadians country-wide supporting the full decriminalization of all illicit drugs, according to the Angus Reid Institute. And that support is greatest in B.C., which has been the deadliest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":45362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,3265],"tags":[7046,3338,680,7044],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45357"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=45357"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=45357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}