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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Canadian advocates pledge to continue selling pure drugs amid overdose crisis

Community members from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War hand out clean, tested doses of drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Community members from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War hand out clean, tested doses of drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photograph: Jesse Winter/Reuters

A Canadian advocacy group has pledged to continue selling cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin to users, in defiance of a federal government order to stop, arguing that their plan is the only way to save lives amid a nationwide drugs crisis.

Over the last six years, more than 10,000 people have died from drug overdoses in the province of British Columbia, with the vast majority of deaths driven by impurities in street drugs.

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