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 @9GM2H24from British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

Restricting access to safe injection sites an clean equipment has proven to make the drug addiction issue far more destructive to the individual an community at large

 @B34Y2V9from British Columbia  disagreed…2mos2MO

If I theirs a drug policy making them legal it leaves a impact making them look like its ok to do impacting children who may do them after.

 @9MHKVCTfrom British Columbia  disagreed…12mos12MO

Lots of students in high schools and middle schools across Canada take drugs and other substances. This will ruin them in the future and I belive that only the hospital should have acsess to these drugs rather than the public.

 @9HRMSPTConservativefrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

The legalization of drugs allowed teenagers and young adults to have chances to take drugs from adults. Normal brains develop to 25 years old, consumption of drugs before this age might damage their brains and affect their long-term development.

 @9H2QR6Yfrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

Using drugs only harms you, not others. You are the victim of drug manufacturers and dealers who use you to farm money.

 @9GPD6XNfrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

Most drugs should be legalized, because ownership of drugs doesn't harm anyone else except one's self, and the idea of law is to protect one from another, not one from his or herself.

 @B2L7HYFfrom British Columbia  agreed…3mos3MO

over the past few days, the decriminalization of drug use has proven to be fetal to the society. It makes the whole society permeates with drug addicts

 @B2D63C8Conservativefrom British Columbia  agreed…4mos4MO

If you just look on the streets of Vancouver, Tornto, literally anywhere, you can see drug addicts collapsed on the side of the road. You see it all the time in the news, drug addicts attacking people, people getting harmed because of drugs, and drugs doing harm to people.

 @9GTKZSVfrom British Columbia  agreed…1yr1Y

Drugs allude to bad behaviour and crimes. If you take drugs then you should be punished for the bad actions.

 @B4XDQK3from British Columbia  disagreed…4 days4D

Decriminalizing drug use will not only free space for more serious crimes like murder, rape, child pornography in jails and institutions, it will also open doors for space in health care and housing.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO

FBI Director Chris Wray Will Resign

The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, told bureau employees on Wednesday that he intended to resign before the Trump administration begins, bowing to the reality that President-elect Donald J. Trump had publicly declared his desire to replace him.Mr. Wray made the disclosure while addressing employees Wednesday afternoon in remarks that tacitly acknowledged the politically charged position the F.B.I. now faces with an incoming president who openly scorns the agency.“I’ve decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down,” Mr. Wray said, adding, “This is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.”The director spoke wistfully about his time at the F.B.I. “This is not easy for me,” he said. “I love this place, I love our mission and I love our people.”The announcement comes after Mr. Trump said in late November that he intended to nominate Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist, to run the F.B.I., and more than two years before Mr. Wray’s 10-year term would have expired.Paul Abbate, the deputy F.B.I. director, is set to retire in April but would typically serve as acting director until Mr. Patel is confirmed. It is not clear who would replace Mr. Abbate, the most senior agent in the bureau.Over more than seven years, Mr. Wray oversaw one of the most consequential and tumultuous periods in the bureau’s history, juggling high-profile criminal investigations of political figures, heated congressional inquiries and two attempted assassinations of Mr. Trump.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO

Kamala Harris is considering running for president again in 2028

Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”Harris concedes: 'We must accept the results of this election'SharePlay VideoMost immediately, Harris and her advisers are working to define how and when she will speak out against Donald Trump and reassert her own role in the Democratic Party. Closing out her term as vice president, she’s set to preside over certifying the November election she lost to Trump, and then appear at the once-and-future president’s inauguration on Jan. 20.“There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won’t be a vacuum for long,” a person close to Harris said.At the same time, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will have a long checklist to plow through before they leave the Naval Observatory for good.They have to decide whether they’ll take up permanent residence at their home in Los Angeles, or establish a base elsewhere. No matter where Harris and her family live, some around her have expressed concerns about safety, as her Secret Service protection expires six months after stepping away.

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