British Columbia

But I don't think we are discussing criminalizing drug use at all. Criminal records for drug use is not part of this act amendment, like not at all.

The NDP act amendment, which got suspended, is a project to restrict the drug use in some places, by directing police to approach the drug users, ask them to move elsewhere, and make sure they do. That's it, that's all there is, there's no jail and no criminal record involved.

As for the argument that barring playgrounds the only place left to do drugs is jail, that's just not serious, they occupy a very small part of the public space.