{"id":524394,"date":"2026-03-09T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:59:44","slug":"letter-b-c-drug-decriminalization-pilot-was-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524394\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: B.C. drug decriminalization pilot was a \u2018disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: B.C. drug decriminalization pilot was a \u2018disaster\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 1:30 am Thursday, March 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor, <\/p>\n<p>Re: <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/03\/04\/abbotsford-and-surrey-drug-user-groups-lose-bid-for-judicial-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abbotsford and Surrey drug-user groups lose bid for judicial review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The B.C. decriminalization pilot was a disaster. Homelessness, street crime, and chaos all spiked. Now drug users have unions trying to appeal? A life built around drugs is a life wasted. Stop blaming others, take responsibility, and grow up. Quit hiding behind your habits. Own your life or keep wasting it.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bardouniotis, Surrey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: B.C. drug decriminalization pilot was a \u2018disaster\u2019 Published 1:30 am Thursday, March 5, 2026 Editor, Re: Abbotsford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-524394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}