Principally, we support full decriminalization. We do not support the use of administrative or other regimes to control, coerce, medicalize, pathologize, or penalize drug use.

As the opioid overdose crisis devastates communities across Canada, groups hope that other jurisdictions will follow Vancouver's lead to take meaningful action on full drug decriminalization.

TAKE ACTION: No more needless deaths. Join the calls for the City of Vancouver to move on decriminalizing simple drug possession now!

Joint letter (Pivot, CDPC) urging the City Council and Mayor to approve the lease on a prospective overdose prevention site in Yaletown. The paramountcy of public health over community input in the approval process for harm reduction services is established in law and should be followed here.

Read Pivot's new blog on how talk is cheap and local governments must Act Now! to decriminalize simple posession.

Read the full report on how the City of Vancouver (and all non-federal jurisdictions, including provinces) can decriminalize simple drug possession now.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a unanimous decision on R v Zora; a case about bail breaches in which Pivot intervened with help from Vancouver-based criminal defence lawyer David Fai.

Our fight continues after an Ontario Court reaches a disappointing decision on prison-based needle exchange programs.

Simons et al. v Minister of Public Safety et al.