Editor:
Educators for Sensible Drug Policy is a coalition member, supporter and advocate for Stop the Violence B.C. STVBC.
We are working with STV and the Health Officer's Council to incorporate and implement drug education based on the fundamental values of ideas over ideology, compassion over coercion and rehabilitation over punishment. We work to reduce the negative health, social and human right impacts of drug use.
EFSDP believes that effective drug policies are those that respect human rights, international standards and scientific evidence of effectiveness. Corporal punishment for drug offences fails all three of these tasks. This amounts to little more than a government trying to brutalize its way out of a drug problem.
We must look to drug models of prevention and protection. We must change our government's 'injustice' drug education agenda and encourage those who support a 'just' drug education agenda'
Judith Renaud
Executive Director/Educators for Sensible Drug Policy
Gibsons
