B.C. ends drug decriminalization, but needs to start charging for possession again: MLA

It didn’t work. B.C.’s drug decriminalization plan is a fail.

The radical experiment died at the end of January. The province’s health minister admitted the pilot program “hasn’t delivered the results that we hoped for.”

“Decriminalization — the pilot at least — is over,” says the Independent MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, Elenore Sturko, a former RCMP officer and long-time foe of B.C.’s soft-on-drugs approach.

Elenore is worried the province’s step-back isn’t enough; she...