Canada's David Eby admits drug plan backfired: 'I was wrong'

The premier of British Columbia — a Canadian province that’s a mecca of open-air drug use and supervised injection sites — has admitted decriminalizing drugs was a mistake.

“I was wrong on drug decriminalization and the effect it would have,” David Eby said at a Vancouver talk organized by the Urban Development Institute earlier this month. “It was not the right policy.

“What it became was a permissive structure that . . . it was okay to use drugs anywhere that resulted in really unhappy consequences.” 6

Despite touting drug decriminalization as a way to save lives, British Columbia is still the epicenter of the opioid crisis north of the border .

The public health emergency it declared back in 2016 over the alarming death toll has only worsened, despite the drug reforms put