THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON US
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Theme 1: The War on Drugs is the new face of Canadian colonialism.
Theme 2: The War on Drugs is a colonial strategy for divide and rule.
Theme 3: The War on Drugs re-traumatizes our people to keep us down.
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Theme 1: Workers use drugs to survive dangerous, painful, undignified, repetitive, grinding and boring work situations which the profit maximizing capitalist economy puts them in.
Theme 2: Divides workers and undermines solidarity.
Theme 3: A new way to profit off workers.
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Theme 1: The War on Drugs is taking away our parents, siblings, relatives and peers when they are locked up or stolen away from us by drug laws, killed by the toxic drug supply, or separated from us by stigma and shame.
Theme 2: The War on Drugs sorts us into ‘good’ kids and ‘bad’ kids and closes off our options. It streams into the destructive opposing sides of the drug war, turning some of us into game members, hustlers, and drug sellers, and others into cops, social workers and prison guards.
Theme 3: The War on Drugs, especially in its current manifestation, robs us of the opportunity for experimentation with altered states of consciousness, something that many of us are drawn to as youth, in a relatively safe, socially regulated space. The toxic drug supply, criminalization, and stigma are piled onto the inherent, but often manageable, risks of experimentation.
Theme 4: Youth who use drugs have limited access to resources and services, and an added layer of social control, with social workers, foster care, service providers, and coerced treatment.
Demand One
many paths to wellness!
Preserve and expand harm reduction, safe supply (including community based buyers clubs), low-barrier detox and person centered culturally appropriate treatment that works.
Demand Two
we are somebody!
End the violent, discriminatory targeting and forced displacement of people who use drugs, Indigenous people, the poor, and the unhoused by police, by-law officers, and MCFD.
Demand Three
the war on drugs has failed!
Scrap the CDSA and created a regulated for-the-people by-the-people framework for currently illegal drugs.
Demand Four
housing, not warehousing!
Ensure dignified, non-market, not for profit and community controlled housing in communities across the province to address the housing crisis.