By ending the drug war we mean rescinding the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and scrapping all of the laws, policies and practices that contribute to the oppression of people who use drugs. We mean respecting the bodily autonomy and agency of people who use drugs. We mean reparations for communities targeted by the war on drugs and for individuals who have been criminalized, traumatized and incarcerated as a consequence. We mean a safe and regulated supply of currently criminalized substances for those who need them, and on-demand detox and regulated, evidence-based treatment for those who want it. 

By drug user liberation we mean addressing the root causes of addiction in the system that oppresses and exploits our communities. This includes but is not limited to: the ongoing colonization that denies Indigenous people their right to self determination and sovereignty on their territories; the grinding exploitation of capitalism* that uses us up, destroys our bodies and then discards us; starvation welfare and disability rates that rob us of our dignity and force us into dirty, dangerous and criminalized side hustles; attacks on poor communities and violent containment and displacement of the poor; the parasitic housing market that sucks us dry and pushes us into dangerous situations, precarity and homelessness when we can no longer pay; and the system of child apprehension that puts parents, especially moms and especially Indigenous and racialized moms, into poverty and then uses our poverty and lack of resources as an excuse to kidnap our children. Liberation comes with connecting, re-connecting and building the strength of our communities. Liberation comes not only with the end of the drug war, but when we can maximize the benefits of currently illicit drugs -  to experience pleasure, creativity and expanded consciousness - and not use them principally as a means to survive the physical, emotional and spiritual injuries and trauma of the system.