I honestly never understood why, if I opened a beer in English Bay in Vancouver, I'd get approached in a matter of minutes to stop/throw away the beer and yet, sometimes a few meters from me, we could see people openly using drugs and doing all the things you can imagine in open air without any repercussions. People completely out of their minds, screaming, walking in the middle of traffic...
I've come to Canada from Brazil, so I know a thing or two about violence, so it saddens me to no end that here I have to tell my wife not to go on certain streets in the middle of downtown due to rampage drug usage by users. And not even bad downtown, fancy Vancouver downtown close to Yaletown and West End.
It is about time that this is addressed. These people need help but the way to way to help them is not to just let them use drugs and stay on the streets every single day.
There are some establishments in downtown Vancouver that I don't even go to anymore simply because of the normalization of open drug usage in Vancouver.
Something needs to change and I thing this is a good start, at least to get this people somewhere where we can then start working on getting them treated or properly helped.
I've come to Canada from Brazil, so I know a thing or two about violence, so it saddens me to no end that here I have to tell my wife not to go on certain streets in the middle of downtown due to rampage drug usage by users. And not even bad downtown, fancy Vancouver downtown close to Yaletown and West End.
It is about time that this is addressed. These people need help but the way to way to help them is not to just let them use drugs and stay on the streets every single day.
There are some establishments in downtown Vancouver that I don't even go to anymore simply because of the normalization of open drug usage in Vancouver.
Something needs to change and I thing this is a good start, at least to get this people somewhere where we can then start working on getting them treated or properly helped.